[patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

[Pavel Machek]

Without this patch, Linux provokes emergency disk shutdowns and
similar nastiness. It was in SuSE kernels for some time, IIRC.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

--- clean/kernel/sys.c	2005-03-19 00:32:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/kernel/sys.c	2005-03-22 12:20:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT:
 		notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_HALT, NULL);
 		system_state = SYSTEM_HALT;
+		device_suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND);
 		device_shutdown();
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "System halted.\n");
 		machine_halt();
@@ -414,6 +415,7 @@
 	case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF:
 		notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_POWER_OFF, NULL);
 		system_state = SYSTEM_POWER_OFF;
+		device_suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND);
 		device_shutdown();
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "Power down.\n");
 		machine_power_off();
@@ -430,6 +432,7 @@
 
 		notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_RESTART, buffer);
 		system_state = SYSTEM_RESTART;
+		device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE);
 		device_shutdown();
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "Restarting system with command '%s'.\n", buffer);
 		machine_restart(buffer);

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