[PATCH]Enabling Auto poweron after power is restored.

Linas Vepstas linas at austin.ibm.com
Wed Feb 7 04:58:49 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:16:23PM -0600, Manish Ahuja wrote:
> Resubmitting this patch with a sysfs interface instead of /proc.
> During some off line discussion, /sys/power was suggested as a possible 
> candidate area for this functionality to reside.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> During power outages, the ups notifies the system for a shutdown. In the 
> current setup, it isn't possible to poweron 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 sysfs 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <ahuja at austin.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas at austin.ibm.com>


--linas



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