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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab•ca>
To: benh@kernel•crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: Replace ppc_md.power_off with pm_power_off
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:05:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40712041205o39ba4e3epcbc008ea47bd83cc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196798152.13230.308.camel@pasglop>

On 12/4/07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:01 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 22:48 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > > > From: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista•com>
> > > >
> > > > The ppc_md.power_off hook performs the same function that the
> > > > pm_power_off hook is supposed to.  However, it is powerpc-specific
> > > > and prevents kernel drivers (e.g., IPMI) from changing how a platform
> > > > is powered off.  So, get rid of ppc_md.power_off and replace it with
> > > > pm_power_off.
> > >
> > > I'm less happy with that one... probably aesthetics :-)
> > >
> > > Can't we just have the generic code call pm_power_off and ppc_md and
> > > which ever powers the machine off wins ?
> >
> > Yes, that would be easy to do.  Seems like duplication though.
> > If you are sure you're okay with the duplication, I'll do that.
>
> Let's ask Paulus what he thinks.

We could simply have the setup code copy the ppc_md.power_off pointer
into pm_power_off; that we retain the nice assignment in
define_machine(), but eliminate the duplicated calls.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
grant.likely@secretlab•ca
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-04 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-04  5:37 [RFC 0/7] powerpc: Rework pm_power_off & machine_[restart|power_off|halt] Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:43 ` [PATCH 1/7] powerpc: Drivers should call machine_power_off not pm_power_off Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:44 ` [PATCH 2/7] powerpc: xmon should call machine_xxx not ppc_md.xxx directly Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] powerpc: ras.c should call machine_power_off() Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] powerpc: Rework the machine_[restart|power_off|halt] routines Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  7:20   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-04  5:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] powerpc: Replace ppc_md.power_off with pm_power_off Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  7:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-04 18:01     ` Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04 19:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-04 20:05         ` Grant Likely [this message]
2007-12-04 20:24           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-05  0:07           ` Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:49 ` [PATCH 6/7] powerpc: Remove redundant power_off and halt routines Mark A. Greer
2007-12-04  5:50 ` [PATCH 7/7] powerpc: Remove incorrect panic() calls Mark A. Greer

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