Re: APM power off fails

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cyphercom.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 04:10:54 -0400

[Linus trimmed from the headers... this isn't really a kernel issue, and he
probably gets enough crap as is...]

Whats the philosophy behind making a difference between
LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF and LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT with APM ?

Because, rebooting and powering a machine down are two entirely different.
things. Even Windblows95 knows the difference.

I have 'powerdown' binaries, a modified sysvinit & scripts, etc. if people
really want this. Although, I don't like the way I've done things so I
wouldn't recommend anyone actually go this way.... (I added another
runlevel, 7, for power down, it should probably use the halt script).

-Chris