On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:46:58AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 07:18:01PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 
>  > > machdep.beep.onhalt (number of times to beep when halting)
>  > > machdep.beep.onhalt_pitch (the frequency)
>  > > machdep.beep.onhalt_period (the duration)
>  > 
>  > I think that machdep.beep.onhalt.{count,pitch,duration}
>  > would be better names.  
> 
> Excuse me, but... "what's the point?"
> 
> If you want to beep on halt, do it from a shutdown script in userland.

The point is to make it been once the system is halted, not when it's
going to be halted.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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