linux-kernel - Re: ARPM shutdown oops (Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff hangs)

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:33 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Kevin <spaceman__spiff@....net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ARPM shutdown oops (Re: [stable] [patch 09/12] Fix SMP poweroff
 hangs)

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> We did have some APM *detection* changes, and maybe APM wasn't even 
> detected for you before, or it was detected differently. That would be due 
> to the bootup changes, I'm Cc'ing Peter Anvin (and the kernel mailing 
> list, in case somebody else see a pattern to this).
> 

Well, I did have exactly one bug report about APM, and that was a user 
who had inadvertently flipped his CONFIG_APM setting (from on to off in 
his particular case -- it was a 10-year-old machine without ACPI.)

	-hpa
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