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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 09:25:53 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Calin Andrian <calin@ibd.dbio.ro>
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Subject: Re: Powering off the system/UPS 
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On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Calin Andrian wrote:

> I followed all your mail about how to patch the kernel. I seems that the
> solution that would satisfy (more or less) everybody would be an extra
> list for at_shutdown where both apm and ups drivers can insert callbacks.
> (the way I patched my system's kernel - haha).

Maybe I missed it in the thread, but why it is a Good Thing to
put UPS support in the kernel as opposed to a purely user mode
daemon that monitors the UPS and does the Right Thing, like
shutdown(8), when things get to a critical state?

-john