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From: akuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM: fast power off - core
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:34:42 -1000
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Andrew,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:36:53 -1000
> akuster <akuster@mvista.com> wrote:
> =

>> Fastpoweroff  allows a user to power down the system without using rc ki=
ll
>> scripts. =

> =

> Confused. =


I have a knack of doing that.

  I just type `halt -pfn'.

Thats fine but from what I can tell, it does not try to remount the file =

system before powering off.

  Why is this patch better?

It allows the user to configure how a power off sequence is defined =

beyond the "Halt" via inserting a new profile module. In the default,
processes are frozen and the file system is remounted as read only.

- Armin