[RFC] poweroff via pm_power_off if set

[Kumar Gala]

On Jun 13, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Christian Krafft wrote:

> This patch is needed to make ipmi_poweroff working on powerpc.
> It straightens the poweroff procedure to match with other  
> architectures.
> At the moment powerpc plattforms can define their poweroff method  
> using
> ppc_md.power_off. The only way for plattform independent driver  
> (ipmi_poweroff)
> to register it's poweroff function is to use pm_power_off. So  
> machine_power_off
> should check whether pm_power_off has been set and if so it should  
> be used.
> If not, plattform dependent ppc_md.power_off should be called.

It seems like this should be the other way around.  Meaning  
ppc_md.power_off should be called first than pm_power_off.  If a  
platform provides a power off mechanism that should presuming take  
precedence over the ipmi_poweroff.

- k