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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:54:56 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
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Hi!

> > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject
> > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler
> > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM
> > > spec?
> > 
> > My thinkpad actually started blinking with some LED when you pressed
> > the button. LED went off when you rejected or when sleep was
> > completed.
> 
> Does the led start blinking when the system sends an apm suspend? In
> that case I don't think you'd notice the brief period between the
> REJECT and the following suspend from userspace ;-)

Not so brief -- suspend to disk takes quite a lot of time. However, it
is probably not too important if user can see blinking led or not.

								Pavel
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I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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