[PATCH] Re: SMP powering off doesn't seem to work.

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On 7 May 2000, Jarno Paananen wrote:
> Add line:
>
> append="apm=power-off"
>
> to your lilo.conf (or similar if you use another boot loader). This
> enables the hack, which seems to work fine for me at least.

Nah. This gets broken quite frequently. Try this patch.

--- apm.c Mon May 8 20:02:58 2000
+++ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c Mon May 8 20:01:17 2000
@@ -1647,13 +1647,17 @@
 
         create_proc_info_entry("apm", 0, NULL, apm_get_info);
 
- kernel_thread(apm, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND | SIGCHLD);
-
         if (smp_num_cpus > 1) {
                 printk(KERN_NOTICE
                    "apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe (power off active).\n");
+ pm_power_off = apm_power_off;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ
+ sysrq_power_off = apm_power_off;
+#endif
                 APM_INIT_ERROR_RETURN;
         }
+
+ kernel_thread(apm, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND | SIGCHLD);
 
         misc_register(&apm_device);
 

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