From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761354AbXJOGXa (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:23:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754241AbXJOGXX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:23:23 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33440 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754066AbXJOGXW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:23:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Olaf Hering Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: apm system does not power off anymore Message-Id: <20071014232316.4beb160f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20071012125426.GA16626@aepfle.de> References: <20071012125426.GA16626@aepfle.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:54:26 +0200 Olaf Hering wrote: > Does anyone know what is required to power off an old PIII 400mhz > system? At some point (2.6.18 I think), apm=power-off was required with > an SMP kernel. Now with 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, even that does not work > anymore. We break old machines at an unacceptably high (IMO) rate and then don't fix them. Please, bisect it? Also, it's bad that the operator has to provide some special boot command-line option to make the machine work properly. Please consider this to be a bug. Has it always needed apm=power-off?