Re: Allow userspace do something special on overtemp

[Pavel Machek]

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.
> > 
> > Could it be applied?
> 
> Why invent Yet-Another-Call-To-Userland-Interface when either
> hotplug/dbus, netlink or an ACPI event will do?
> 
> The argument "well what if hotplug of acpid don't know what to do" is,
> IMO, bogus since:
> 
> * Obviously systems today are functioning 

Yes, kernel is calling /sbin/poweroff, which everyone has. Switching
to hotplug/dbus would immediately break those systems.
								Pavel
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