From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Amit Gud <gud@eth.net>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
cramerj@intel.com,
USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:30:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114489812.7111.42.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050425210631.GE3906@elf.ucw.cz>
> > So if I understand this correctly, you'd like to manually turn off devices
> > during a power off. I believe the ACPI spec recommends this for S4 (but also
> > to leave on wake devices), but not necessarily S5. Still it may be a good
> > idea. Comments?
>
> It is neccessary for some machines (interrupt controller) or machine
> will not power down...
Additionally, some machines won't properly park/flush the disk, it's
necessary to send the proper suspend commands to IDE hard disks prior to
shutting down or we risk data loss.
> > > Actually this patch should be in the queue somewhere... We had it in
> > > suse trees for a long time, and IMO it can solve problem easily.
> >
> > Yeah, that's what I had in mind when I mentioned PMSG_FREEZE. It seems
> > to replace "shutdown" in many ways, is this correct?
>
> Yes. (Actually I'm not sure if PMSG_FREEZE or PMSG_SUSPEND is right
> thing to do for suspend.)
I think FREEZE for kexec and SUSPEND for shutdown, though I suppose we
may want a separate one for the later eventually...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-04-25 19:06 ` [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability Greg KH
2005-04-25 19:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-04-25 20:07 ` Greg KH
2005-04-25 20:11 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-25 19:45 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-04-25 20:12 ` Greg KH
2005-04-26 3:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-25 20:14 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-25 20:52 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-04-25 21:12 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 15:49 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 16:04 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 16:37 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 17:14 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 17:41 ` Grant Grundler
2005-05-11 5:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2005-05-11 14:38 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-25 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-25 22:13 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-25 23:23 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-26 4:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 6:23 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-26 7:14 ` [linux-pm] " Nigel Cunningham
2005-04-26 9:16 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 9:41 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 3:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 15:14 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 9:39 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 17:50 ` Dave Jones
2005-04-26 20:23 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 3:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 15:11 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 16:01 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-04-26 15:41 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 16:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-26 16:19 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 17:12 ` Alan Stern
2005-04-26 17:19 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-25 20:08 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-25 20:19 ` Greg KH
2005-04-25 20:24 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-25 20:42 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-25 20:55 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-25 21:06 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 4:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-04-26 16:12 ` Grant Grundler
2005-04-26 13:44 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2005-04-26 21:15 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-25 21:00 ` Greg KH
2005-04-25 21:13 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-26 3:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 10:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-25 21:13 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2005-04-26 3:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-26 6:33 ` Adam Belay
2005-04-26 6:44 ` Greg KH
2005-05-04 7:02 [PATCH] PCI: fix up word-aligned 16-bit PCI config access through sysfs Greg KH
2005-05-04 7:02 ` [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability Greg KH
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