On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently snsc_event for Altix systems sends SIGPWR to init (and abuses
> tasklist_lock..) while the sbus drivers call execve for /sbin/shutdown
> (which is also ugly, it should at least use call_usermodehelper)
> With normal sysvinit both will end up the same, but I suspect the
> shutdown variant, maybe with a sysctl to chose the exact path to call
> would be cleaner. What do you guys think about adding a common function
> to do this.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'll copy Aaron Young, who I think
actually wrote the code to send the SIGPWR, in case he had a Good
Reason for doing it this way. (Aaron, if I'm remembering wrong
and you're not the guy who wrote this, let me know...)
> Could you test such a patch for me?
Sure. I'll need to get hold of some hardware/firmware that will
reproduce a critical environmental situation... Might take a
litte while...
Thanks
--
Greg Howard, MTS - Core Platform SW MS 10-1-061
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc. 2750 Blue Water Road
[email protected] Eagan, MN 55121
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
"This assignment has two parts: a hard part, and an easy part. Do
the easy part first; you might learn something that will help you
on the hard part. Or, maybe you'll go outside for a walk before
you start the hard part, and get hit by a truck!"
- Dr. Jeffrey W. Smith
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
| |
 |