Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings everybody;
> 
> After seeing a message indicating that rc8 no longer did a powerdown, I 
> thought I'd check that since I needed to, my tv card wasn't even showing up 
> in the lspci report. It was partially backed out of the pci slot, this case 
> seems to encourage that.
> 
I have rc8-git3 running on several machines, and I'm delighted to say 
that it powers down, reboots, and suspends to mem/disk without bothering 
to patch in suspend2. I saw the same message, but perhaps git3 had the 
fix, since machines go down correctly. I'm going to boot a laptop off CD 
  and try the rc9 on that to see if the wireless issues I had to patch 
around are fixed as promised. If so I'll go to the newest kernel for 
power saving.

> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there.  I hadn't yet 
> booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.
> 
> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the option 
> was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in xconfig.
> 
> Why was this removed?  Or if moved, where to?
> 
What? Was what removed?

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