Re: Allow userspace do something special on overtemp

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 04:09:05 EST


Hi!

> > This patch cleans up thermal.c a bit, and adds possibility to react to
> > critical overtemp: it tries to call /sbin/overtemp, and only if that
> > fails calls /sbin/poweroff.
>
> why not call /sbin/hotplug ????

Because /sbin/hotplug may exist, but may not know how to handle
overtemp. Which would be bad.
Pavel
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