Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

Bill Davidsen
2007-10-03T13:41:41Z

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there. I hadn't
>>> yet booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago.
>>>
>>> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the
>>> option was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in
>>> xconfig.
>>>
>>> Why was this removed? Or if moved, where to?
>>>
>> What? Was what removed?
>>
>
> This phrase has not existed in any .config newer than 2.6.23-rc1 here:
> CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y
>
>
>
Yes, it's still there as of 23-rc8-git5, the latest source I've built on
this machine. If you start menuconfig and search for the value, (I used
"/APM") you will see that it now depends on various other options. I
haven't personally needed it in a long time, but there are ACPI
implementations which are seriously broken. And probably some embedded
hardware and/or hand-held devices now.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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