Re: apm system does not power off anymore

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:54:26 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone know what is required to power off an old PIII 400mhz
> system? At some point (2.6.18 I think), apm=power-off was required with
> an SMP kernel. Now with 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, even that does not work
> anymore.

We break old machines at an unacceptably high (IMO) rate and then don't
fix them.  Please, bisect it?

Also, it's bad that the operator has to provide some special boot command-line
option to make the machine work properly.  Please consider this to be a
bug.  Has it always needed apm=power-off?
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