linux-kernel - Re: apm system does not power off anymore

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Message-Id: <20071014232316.4beb160f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:16 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: apm system does not power off anymore

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:54:26 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de> 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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