Subject: Re: Kernel <-> init communication for shutdown
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/15/2001 20:22:30
> I don't think it's a good idea to add this mess to init.
> Those magic buttons are console resources and should be handled
> by whatever or whoever is controlling the console.

Side node: I don't think it's always a thing to be *detected* by the console
driver (the soft power button on i386 does not interact with the keyboard
controller, IIRC). How it is handled and passed to userland is, of course, a
different question.


Martin