The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Dan Carpenter" <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shut down from CPU 0 [regression]
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:20:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1hd1bkdv7.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a63d67fe0607171952o539a6a29te75ef332bcdbba22@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Carpenter's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:52:16 -0700")

"Dan Carpenter" <error27@gmail.com> writes:

> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6660316cb7a1a2c59a73a52870490c0f782f45c1
>
> Even though you should be able to call ACPI power down from either
> CPU, I've seen some BIOSes that implement it wrong.  That's why the
> code was there.
> For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189052

I don't understand the complaint we should be forcing the action to
happen on the boot cpu from another place in the code.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-21  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  2:52 shut down from CPU 0 [regression] Dan Carpenter
2006-07-21  0:20 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-07-21  2:42   ` Dan Carpenter

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m1hd1bkdv7.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com \
    --to=ebiederm@xmission.com \
    --cc=error27@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox