org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Danny Kukawka]

On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 30/03/07, Danny Kukawka <dkukawka at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > I think Shutdown and Reboot are power management operations, so they
> > > make sense in the o.f.pm interface, so I would vote for having them
> > > mandatory and the others optional, so that every desktop can implement
> > > what they want/can
> >
> > Reboot (e.g. after install a new kernel) has absolutly nothing to do with
> > powermanagement and the same for shutdown. You want the functions also
> > without any powermanagement.
>
> How is turning off the computer not power management?

Why the hell should reboot (for example) be powermanagement (what e.g. in a 
XEN system where the reboot is more virtual)? This is not powermanagement 
this is may some kind of systemmanagement.
 
Danny