Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756821AbXJCNll (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:41:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754085AbXJCNlb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:41:31 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:38085 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755281AbXJCNla (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:41:30 -0400 Message-ID: <47039D80.6060805@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:47:44 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gene Heskett , Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9 References: <200710020650.02613.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <4702C401.4050009@tmr.com> <200710022217.53972.gene.heskett@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200710022217.53972.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1409 Lines: 39 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> Indeed it went to the system halted message and just sat there. I hadn't >>> yet booted to rc9 as amanda was running, so I did just a few minutes ago. >>> >>> After the reboot to rc9, I ran a make xconfig again to check that the >>> option was enabled, but it seems to have disappeared from the menus in >>> xconfig. >>> >>> Why was this removed? Or if moved, where to? >>> >> What? Was what removed? >> > > This phrase has not existed in any .config newer than 2.6.23-rc1 here: > CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y > > > Yes, it's still there as of 23-rc8-git5, the latest source I've built on this machine. If you start menuconfig and search for the value, (I used "/APM") you will see that it now depends on various other options. I haven't personally needed it in a long time, but there are ACPI implementations which are seriously broken. And probably some embedded hardware and/or hand-held devices now. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/