Re: shutdown -h now, 2.6.23-rc8 & 9

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed Oct 03 2007 - 09:41:43 EST


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.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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