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Subject: Re: apm power_off on smp
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu>
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On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 00:03, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
> Yes, all I want is poweroff.
> I understand that apm is not smp safe, and pretty much all of it is
> disabled in smp mode.
> 
> What i do not understand is why the poweroff functionality is disabled by
> default.

Because it too is unsafe on some machines

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