linux-kernel - Re: Nobody cared about IRQs at shutdown

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Date:	Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:15:40 +0500
From:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nobody cared about IRQs at shutdown

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 
> > In fact, I think that there is something bad, not specific to USB, 
> > FireWire or SATA. Without systemd, all those subsystems function 
> > properly at shutdown. With systemd, it looks like there are many 
> > mishandled interrupts (all of USB, FireWire and SATA) at shutdown.
> > What    could be this common thing? ACPI?
> 
> I don't know -- what is systemd?

Systemd is a new init developed by Lennart Poettering. You can learn more at http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd

It employs high concurrency in starting and stopping services, starts many things on demand and thus boots faster than the traditional SysV init. And also exposes this bug :(

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov (from mobile phone)
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