Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262492AbVA0AVZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:21:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262490AbVA0AVR (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:21:17 -0500 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:3297 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262493AbVAZW6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:58:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:58:33 -0800 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Sytse Wielinga , "Barry K. Nathan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Andrew Morton , fastboot@lists.osdl.org, Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown Message-ID: <20050126225833.GA8153@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <20050125094350.GA6372@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> <20050125104904.GB5906@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> <20050125220229.GB5726@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> <20050126132741.GA23182@speedy.student.utwente.nl> <20050126144346.GD23182@speedy.student.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 14 On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:05AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Do you know if there is any deliberate reason Alt-SysRq-O skips > doing a normal device shutdown work? I would guess that it's intended for use when things are so messed up that all you want to do is cut power ASAP. But, that's just a guess. -Barry K. Nathan - 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/