RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown

[Grover, Andrew]

I'm hesitant to do this, since 1) You can put those printk's in yourself to
find out if your particular system is working and 2) You can just cat
/proc/sys/event, hit a button, and you should see output if it works.

Regards -- Andy

> From: John Fremlin [mailto:[e-mail]]

>  "Grover, Andrew" <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > This is not correct, because we want the power button to be
> > configurable.  The user should be able to redefine the power
> > button's action, perhaps to only sleep the system. We currently
> > surface button events to acpid, which then can do the right thing,
> > including a shutdown -h now (which I assume notifies init).
> 
> That's just fine and dandy, but
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > +		printk ("acpi: Power button pressed!\n");
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > +		printk("acpi: Sleep button pressed!\n");
> 
> Do you think you could keep the above part of the patch? It would be
> nice to know how much of ACPI was actually working ;-)