On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 05:50:32PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > On 13-04-16 08:45 AM, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > > On 13-04-15 02:45 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >> Hi Mathieu, > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 07:38:32AM -0600, mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> From: "Mathieu J. Poirier" <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>> Attempt to reboot the system gracefully when a key combo > >>> is detected. The system is force to go down if the first > >>> attempt failed and the key combo is pressed a second time. > >>> > >> > >> If system can gracefully shutdown can;t we request it through normal > >> means? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > > > > Can you provide more details on how you'd like to see this done please ? > > Since 'kernel_restart' is found in 'linux/reboot.h' I was under the > > impression that it is fairly mainstream. > > > > Thanks, > > Mathieu. > > > > I haven't hard back from my last question so I'll try to interpret your > original answer differently. > > The proposed functionality is a last effort at rebooting the system when > the UI is hung. In such case the rest of the system could still be > alive and as such should be given a chance to reboot more gracefully > than when using emergency_reset(). OK, fair enough. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
