From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: apm system does not power off anymore
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071014232316.4beb160f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071012125426.GA16626@aepfle.de>
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:54:26 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> Does anyone know what is required to power off an old PIII 400mhz
> system? At some point (2.6.18 I think), apm=power-off was required with
> an SMP kernel. Now with 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, even that does not work
> anymore.
We break old machines at an unacceptably high (IMO) rate and then don't
fix them. Please, bisect it?
Also, it's bad that the operator has to provide some special boot command-line
option to make the machine work properly. Please consider this to be a
bug. Has it always needed apm=power-off?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 12:54 apm system does not power off anymore Olaf Hering
2007-10-15 6:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-15 6:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-10-15 6:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-17 14:49 ` Olaf Hering
2007-10-19 9:36 ` Olaf Hering
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