Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:29:35 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change] Message-ID: <3671729F.9CF2280D@videotron.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Well, it seems that in my rush to sent this to the list I actually sent it only to Mike. So here it goes. Stephane E. Potvin Galea Network Security [-- Attachment #2 --] Message-ID: <36711F4B.556039DF@videotron.ca> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:34:03 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> Organization: Galea Network Security X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change References: <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Smith wrote: > > > : Why the change? The current behavior seems right to me. > > > > Actually, rather than argue this into the ground, would you object to > > my implementing a > > > > options APM_MAP_HALT_TO_POWER_OFF > > > > and checking it in to apm.c and LINT? > > Yes. There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you > to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having > a kernel option override this would be stupid. > It's not stupid at all in the current context. The majority of us that have laptop uses i386 compatible processors that don't have the system monitor you mention. Changing the behavior of the halt command is gratuitious in our context and will only break current applications like kdm (part of kde) that expect the -h flag to shutdown the laptop, not halting it. At least could you put an option in the kernel config file until such applications are changed to expect the new flag? Just my 0.02, I don't really want a flame war over this so if you don't add the knob it's ok, I'll just add it locally. Stephane E. Potvin Galea Network Security
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