pmac_power_off is gone in 2.2.17

Paul Mackerras paulus at linuxcare.com.au
Tue Oct 17 10:57:23 EST 2000


Olaf Hering writes:

> the pmac_power_off() call in pmac_halt() disappeared in 2.2.17.
> Is there any special reason for that? I affects proably only B&W
> machines, /sbin/halt doesnt work anymore.

This was changed to make it consistent with the behaviour on other
architectures.  Distributions should use halt -p in their init scripts
if power-off is required on shutdown.

Paul.

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