Re: 2.5.69-mm5: reverting i8259-shutdown.patch

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Wed, 14 May 2003 22:45:38 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 14 May 2003, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> Interesting. This is yet more proof that system-level devices cannot be
> treated as common, everyday devices. Sure, it's nice to see them show up
> in sysfs with little overhead, and very nice not to have to work about
> them during shutdown or power transitions. But there are just too many
> special cases (like getting the ordering right ;) that you have to worry
> about.
>
> So, what do we do with them?

Does the PIC shutdown callback get called _just_ before acpi_power_off?

Zwane

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