From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030234AbVHZTmb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030233AbVHZTmG (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:06 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:41344 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030232AbVHZTmF (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:00:54 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: suspicious behaviour in pcwd driver. Message-ID: <20050825120054.GA443@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20050822183006.GB27344@redhat.com> <20050822200144.GG27344@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050822200144.GG27344@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > 2. that printk will never hit the logs, so the admin will just find > > a powered off box with no idea what happened. > > Should we at least sync block devices before doing the power off ? > > AFAICS, this is still a problem with kernel_power_off() though ? > Look at how acpi does this; we probably want to trigger clean shutdown. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms