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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/48] kernel: Add support for power-off handler call
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:33:48 +0100
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Hi!

> Introduce a system power-off handler call chain to solve the described
> problems.  This call chain is expected to be executed from the architecture
> specific machine_power_off() function.  Drivers providing system power-off
> functionality are expected to register with this call chain.  By using the
> priority field in the notifier block, callers can control power-off
> handler

Linus rather disliked the idea of notifier chains for this... And I
don't see how it got addressed.

									Pavel
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