On Sunday, Oct 20, 2002, at 14:43 US/Eastern, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:03:29PM +0200, der Mouse wrote:
>
>> The point of machdep.beep.onhalt (or whatever it's called) is that it
>> tells you when it *is* safe to power off.  Not all machines have soft
>> power, y'know. :-)
>
> This is just needless kernel bloat.

I can see it being good optional kernel [feature|bloat], but I wouldn't=20=

call it needless.  I'd like to see it extended to beep-on-panic and=20
beep-on-ddb.

jf
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John Franklin
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