On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:32:03 +0200 > > From: Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jas...@humppa.nl> > > > > hi, > > > > the attached diff renames sgi's power(4) driver to nmi(4). that name > > makes actually a lot more sense. > > Please explain! The interrupt handler registered by this driver does > a psignal(initproc, SIGUSR2), which powers down the machine. Drivers > that do this are called power(4) on other hardware platforms as well. Well, actually it's just a Non-Meaningful Interrupt we send with power(4) driver. So we may just reflect it in the name too.
Cheers, Jasper -- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
