Re: ARPM shutdown oops (Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs)

H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-10T16:32:21Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> We did have some APM *detection* changes, and maybe APM wasn't even
> detected for you before, or it was detected differently. That would be due
> to the bootup changes, I'm Cc'ing Peter Anvin (and the kernel mailing
> list, in case somebody else see a pattern to this).
>

Well, I did have exactly one bug report about APM, and that was a user
who had inadvertently flipped his CONFIG_APM setting (from on to off in
his particular case -- it was a 10-year-old machine without ACPI.)

-hpa