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Subject: Re: powerd in arch/sparc64/kernel/power.c
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:31:03 -0700

> Hi Dave,
> 
> I was about to submit the patch below for merging, but it obviously 
> conflicts with your change 13077d80286205e02eebe1c2786a914a4bbd2588 
> ("[SPARC64]: Export powerd facilities for external entities.") which was 
> merged this morning.
> 
> My patch makes orderly_poweroff() a globally-common function to generate 
> a user-level poweroff event, and it basically a superset of powerd.   
> Should I drop the sparc parts of this patch, or would you be OK with 
> dropping powerd?

Put the generic code in and I'll try to make use of it in sparc64.
I have two spots that need it now.