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Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> writes: > * Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:>> On Monday 27 February 2006 23:32, Chris Wright wrote: >> > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. >> > ------------------>> > >> > So why are we calling smp_send_stop from machine_halt?>> >> I don't think that one is really suitable for stable since it's >> a relative obscure problem and the fix is not fully clear. Also it might >> have side effects. Shouldn't be merged.>> This was sent in by both Andrew and Ashok, and is upstream (although Eric > notes there's more to the comprehensive solution). It allegedly solves: >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6077>> Although the reporter seems to have gone silent. Unless there's some > compelling evidence otherwise, I'm happy to drop it. The comprehensive fix for 2.6.15.x is to remove -p from /sbin/halt if your machine has this problem. I have just updated the bugzilla entry so we can remember this. There are no security implications to this, either since this is a crash when attempting to power off the machine. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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