Re: [PATCH 09/13] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: handle HKEY thermal and battery alarms

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On ven, 2009-01-16 at 01:06 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I think it makes sense to tie them to uevents on the appropriate generic 
> > devices. Even if most hardware doesn't generate them, the ability to pop 
> > up a notification telling the user that the firmware thinks their system 
> > is too hot is useful.
> 
> Well, it should actually be useful even without the uevents... as long as
> the desktop environments are actually smart enough to notice the kernel
> really wants to tell the user something when it outputs CRITICAL, ALERT and
> EMERGENCY level messages...

I'm not sure hal is able to do that atm, but it could, when receiving
such events, pass them to a notification daemon so at least the user is
warned. More stuff could be done but I guess it depends mainly on
desktop people.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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