From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:26:31 -0700
Message-Id: <200210212226.PAA01409@adam.yggdrasil.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Patch: linux-2.5.42/kernel/sys.c - warm reboot should not suspend devices
Cc: eblade@blackmagik.dynup.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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I wrote to Eric Biederman:
>        kmonte and sys_kexec skip the BIOS reset code and therefore
>may need to do more elaborate shutdown, but please do not saddle the
>normal reboot case with [that].

	Let me add that I would be quite happy to see the common code
in sys_reboot moved into a shared exported routine that sys_kexec and
kmonte could use, so that they would automatically track changes to
that procedure rather than requiring maintenance of a duplicate copy
of that code.

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