On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:51:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > Just to clarify, the change in question isn't new. It was introduced by the
> > commit 9185cfa92507d07ac787bc73d06c42222eec7239 before 2.6.20, at Seife's
> > request and with Pavel's acceptance.
>
> Ok, if it's that old, we migt as leave it in. Clearly there weren't many
> regressions, and this isn't a case of other monsters lurking behind a lack
> of testers.
I pushed for this since on ACPI machines, "platform" is the right thing to do,
and i still think it will only break on machines that have a broken ACPI BIOS.
(Are there machines with broken ACPI BIOS around? ;-)
Your additional "fall back to shutdown if !(ops)"-fix looks very sane,
however, and is definitely a good idea.
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