Re: grub_halt()

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:24:39PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > grub_halt is on i386-pc defined as `void grub_halt (int no_apm)' but
> > everywhere else as `grub_halt (void)'
> > util/grub-emu.c has a #ifdef for these 2
> >
> > Shouldn't we just add an int parameter everywhere to make this more
> > simple?
> >
> >   
> I think in future we'll have more different halt methods on different
> platforms. So we could do:
> grub_halt (int methods)
> And have e.g.
> GRUB_HALT_DEFAULT_METHODS
> And e.g. on i386:
> #define GRUB_HALT_DEFAULT_METHODS
> (GRUB_HALT_APM|GRUB_HALT_ACPI|GRUB_HALT_HANG)

I was hoping we could remove complexity rather than add more of it.

Why would higher layer (who's just calling grub_halt because it wants the
system to shutdown) want to know about things like APM or ACPI ?

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