Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:22:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change] Message-ID: <199812120622.WAA00877@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:29:35 EST." <3671729F.9CF2280D@videotron.ca>
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Please format your messages in a fashion conducive to replies if you expect same. > > 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. Fine. Please note that we now run on systems that do. Keeping the functional difference between platforms as small as possible is a desirable goal. Notwithstanding this, it is useful to be able to halt rather than shut down an i386 system, and mandating a disable of APM before doing this is not a usable solution. > 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? No; such options tend to rot. If you're really so concerned about this, it's easier still for you to wrap shutdown in a script to do your translation for you. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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