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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare•com.au>
To: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: pmac_power_off is gone in 2.2.17
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:57:23 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14827.38371.822681.539244@argo.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001012175322.A5273@suse.de>


Olaf Hering writes:

> the pmac_power_off() call in pmac_halt() disappeared in 2.2.17.
> Is there any special reason for that? I affects proably only B&W
> machines, /sbin/halt doesnt work anymore.

This was changed to make it consistent with the behaviour on other
architectures.  Distributions should use halt -p in their init scripts
if power-off is required on shutdown.

Paul.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-10-16 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-12 15:53 pmac_power_off is gone in 2.2.17 Olaf Hering
2000-10-12 20:08 ` Roman Zippel
2000-10-12 21:24   ` Olaf Hering
2000-10-16 23:57 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]

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