Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 17:35:54 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
        andersg@0x63.nu (Anders Gustafsson), arjanv@redhat.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
In-Reply-To: <3C930785.2070902@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Mar 16, 2002 03:51:17 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> If it makes it easier for some, I consider poweroff not as an act unto 
> itself, but as a transition to state D3cold. :)  And since we will 

That isnt neccessarily a good idea. Not every BIOS is terribly keen when
faced with a soft boot and someone having powered off all the PCI bridges.

> >This is what I want. Those reboot/shutdown notifiers are completely and 
> >utterly buggy, and cannot sanely handle any kind of device hierarchy.
> >
> yep

They were never designed to. They should go - the new PM code can handle
everything they do, including refusals and more. It will also fix the ordering 
problems some people hit with them.

Alan

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