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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:17:27 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][v6] ACPI / PM: Introduce efi poweroff for HW-full platforms without _S5

On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 08:51:10 AM Chen Yu wrote:
> The problem is Linux registers pm_power_off = efi_power_off only if
> we are in hardware reduced mode. Actually, what we also want is to do
> this when ACPI S5 is simply not supported on non-legacy platforms.
> Since some future Intel platforms are HW-full mode where the DSDT
> fails to supply an _S5 object(without SLP_TYP), we should let such
> kind of platform to leverage efi runtime service to poweroff.
> 
> This patch uses efi power off as first choice when S5 is unavailable,
> even if there is a customized poweroff(driver provided, eg).
> Meanwhile, the legacy platforms will not be affected because there is
> no path for them to overwrite the pm_power_off to efi power off.
> 
> Suggested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>

Applied, thanks!