From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Zoz Subject: Re: System hang when trying to enter sleep/standby state Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:40:33 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030217054032.GN3535@suse.de> References: <200302140753.h1E7rOD00889@ikffws2.ikff.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 14, Patrick Mochel wrote: > > > > This particular item is dangerous and will be removed from the kernel. > > > > Is it up to you to decide that? ;-) > > As a matter of fact, yes it is. And it has been removed from Linus's 2.5 > tree as of last night. This is very very poor. > Note that the argument is moot anwyay - there exists a sysrq key > combination that calls pm_power_off() (which points to acpi_power_off()). > This gives users the ability to turn their system off immediately, though > removes it from procfs. Switch it off!!! It's dangerous! :( -- ciao, christian -------------------------------------------------------------------- Verglichen mit jedem x-beliebigen Redmonder Betriebssystem-Clone ist Linux geradezu eine leuchtende Perle der Datensicherheit. ------ Frank Rennemann (http://www.linux-knowledge-portal.org) ----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf