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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:28:52 -0700
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> From: Simon Richter
> > We are going to need some software that handles button 
> events, as well as
> > thermal events, battery events, polling the battery, AC 
> adapter status
> > changes, sleeping the system, and more.
> 
> Yes, that will be a separate daemon that will also get the 
> events. But I
> think it's a good idea to have a simple interface that allows 
> the user to
> run arbitrary commands when ACPI events occur, even without 
> acpid running
> (think of singleuser mode, embedded systems, ...).

Fair enough. I don't think I would be out of line to say that our resources
are focused on enabling full ACPI functionality for Linux, including a
full-featured PM policy daemon. That said, I don't think there's anything
precluding the use of another daemon (or whatever) from using the ACPI
driver's interface.

> > Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well".
> 
> Another Unix philosophy: "keep it simple, stupid". :-)

OK one more silly aphorism and I'll shut up. ;-) "Make it as simple as
possible, but no simpler."

Regards -- Andy

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