Subject: Re: Beep on halt (definitive?)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/21/2002 07:33:25
In message <20021020183004.GA1541@antioche.eu.org>
on Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:05 +0200,
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
To give an actual example:
o i386 PC
- with AT power supply
- without display
Since AT power supply has mechanical power switch, user must switch
off power by hand finally. In this case, beep in a shutdown script
dose not help at all and kernel must notify user when it's OK to
switch off.
Cheers.
--
Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>