On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:05:19AM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:

Paul Mackerras wrote:

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Manish Ahuja writes:

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During power outages, the ups notifies the system for a shutdown. In the 
current setup, it isn't possible to power on when power is restored. 
This patch fixes the issue by calling the right ibm,power-off-ups token 
during such events. It also adds a proc interface so that rc.powerfail 
can parse the epow events and modify the power-off behavior accordingly 
to enable the right token to be called.

Creating new non-process-related files in /proc is frowned upon these
days, so we'll have to find somewhere in /sys for this.  Anybody got a
suggestion?

Maybe a sysctl instead?

What's a sysctl?

Create a new /sys/class/rtas class? 
There's a suggestive /sys/firmware directory, but  don't know why its
there... 

-- linas