Paul Jackson <[email protected]> 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
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