Re: suspicious behaviour in pcwd driver.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> Export machine_power_off() on ppc64, as the pcwd watchdog driver needs it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.12/arch/ppc64/kernel/setup.c~	2005-08-09 17:37:36.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.12/arch/ppc64/kernel/setup.c	2005-08-09 17:37:53.000000000 -0400
> @@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ void machine_power_off(void)
>  	local_irq_disable();
>  	while (1) ;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(machine_power_off);
>  
>  void machine_halt(void)
>  {
> 

In fact, we need that for the G5 thermal driver too. I wonder why/how
this export got removed ... Some over-zealous janitors ?

Hrm... /me plays with gitk

Ahhh, ok, so that is this patch:

<<
machine_restart, machine_halt and machine_power_off are machine
    specific hooks deep into the reboot logic, that modules
    have no business messing with.  Usually code should be calling
    kernel_restart, kernel_halt, kernel_power_off, or
    emergency_restart. So don't export machine_restart,
    machine_halt, and machine_power_off so we can catch buggy users.
>>

Well, I think for now, it's safe for therm_pm72 to call
machine_power_off() in case of critical overtemp. I'll have a look at
kernel_* equivalents later.

Can you still slip that patch into 2.6.13 ?

Ben.