From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Raj Ashok <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha build pm_power_off hack
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:23:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1y82qany7.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051211232428.18286.40968.sendpatchset@sam.engr.sgi.com> (Paul Jackson's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:24:29 -0800 (PST)")
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> writes:
> This follows up Eric W. Biederman's patch of Dec 8, 2005:
> [PATCH] Don't attempt to power off if power off is not implemented.
>
> To avoid having problems with one arch break the crosstool
> builds which developers for other arch's do to ensure they
> haven't added an arch-specific build bug, add a NULL
> pm_power_off() function pointer definition to the alpha build.
>
> Without this change, an alpha build fails in the final link
> stage, for the missing 'pm_power_off' symbol that is used
> in kernel/sys.c
>
> If the alpha developers don't like the behaviour of '/sbin/halt'
> on their kernel, I will leave that to them to figure out.
Taking a quick glance at alpha causes me to think we always
want pm_power_off to be non null on alpha.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-12 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-11 23:24 Paul Jackson
2005-12-12 5:23 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2005-12-12 6:24 ` Paul Jackson
2005-12-12 12:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-12-12 13:44 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
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