Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:55:51 -0800
From: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:54:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Marcos D. Marado Torres" <marado@student.dei.uc.pt> wrote:
> >
> > Please add to -mm the patch in attachment, since it solves the old
> >  acpi_power_off bug...
> 
> What acpi_power_off bug?  And how does it solve it?

Here's the observed bug that the patch is trying to fix:
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041

What Marcos posted is a typo-corrected version of Eric Biederman's
patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110665542929525&w=2

In Eric's own words, the patch "needs some work before it goes into a
mainline kernel". AFAICT it's more of a proof-of-concept, just to see if
Eric's on the right track...

This is the motivation behind the patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110665405402747&w=2

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>

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