On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:32:50PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 02:31, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This patch disables interrupt generation from the legacy pic on > > reboot. Now that there is a sys_device class it should not be called > > while drivers are still using interrupts. > > > > There is a report about this breaking ACPI power off on some systems. > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 > > However the final comment seems to exhonorate this code. So until > > I get more information I believe that was a false positive. > > No, the last comment in the bug report > (davej says that there were poweroff problems in FC) > does not exhonerate this patch. > All it says is that there are additional poweroff bugs out there.
Indeed. Since dropping the kexec bits from the Fedora kernel, the 'hangs at poweroff' bug went away for a lot of folks, but there still remain some people affected by some other regression. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=acpi_power_off has the gory details. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
