Re: powerd on boot

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On May 15, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Christoph Egger wrote:
>
> ...catching up on old mail...
>
> > The problem, sysmon_power_daemon is NULL when powerd is not running.
> > So when I inject the event into sysmon (which is _before_ powerd) runs,
> > the event is lost.
>
> The idea there is for sysmon to be able to do something "reasonable" 
> when a power switch event occurs when the daemon is not running, like 
> call cpu_reboot() or whatever.
>
> > Any ideas on how to fix that?
>
> You could special-case the different kinds of switches and choose to 
> enqueue events for certain kinds of keys (or, rather, for keys 
> !stuff-that-needs-to-be-acted-on-immediately).

I have this diff:
http://www.netbsd.org/~cegger/sysmon.diff

Jared doesn't like it. He provided this idea:


acpidalb(4) exposes a sysctl say kern.autolaunch.

Runtime events presses goes to powerd (= wakeup from resume),
boot time events are reported via sysctl (= system-wake).

At boot time a /etc/rc.d/applaunch will check for kern.autolaunch.
powerd will run /etc/powerd/actions/wakeup from resume.

Both will run /usr/sbin/dapplaunch <id> <reason>
and the mapping of event to action is configured in /etc/applaunch.conf

Christoph