Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 24 Jan 2005 23:30:53 -0700 |
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:32:50PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 02:31, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > > > > > > This patch disables interrupt generation from the legacy pic on > > > reboot. Now that there is a sys_device class it should not be called > > > while drivers are still using interrupts. > > > > > > There is a report about this breaking ACPI power off on some systems. > > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 > > > However the final comment seems to exhonorate this code. So until > > > I get more information I believe that was a false positive. > > > > No, the last comment in the bug report > > (davej says that there were poweroff problems in FC) > > does not exhonerate this patch. > > All it says is that there are additional poweroff bugs out there. > > Indeed. Since dropping the kexec bits from the Fedora kernel, > the 'hangs at poweroff' bug went away for a lot of folks, > but there still remain some people affected by some other regression. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=acpi_power_off > has the gory details.
Ok. I misunderstood that one then. I thought a separate fix had cured the bug. With the kexec bits remaining.
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