On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:57:53PM +0200, François Boisson wrote: > Le Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:42:34 +0200 > François Boisson <user.anti-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit: > > > Hey > > > > I have a problem which seems to be related to shutdown for a Toshiba portege > > (it's seems that the problem is also on other Toshiba, on VAIO cw5, y > [...] > > If i shutdown the computer and wait some hours, the power consumption of the > > computer is not null, it's about the same as the power consumtion during a > > suspend of computer. In fact > > > > Boot and halt with: > > Windows 7 ---> No power consumption after > > Linux 2.6.37-486-PAE ---> No power consumption after > > Linux >= 3.0 ---> Power consumption (about 45-50 mW if acpitool is correct) > [...] > > Well can anybody just tell me the sequence of shutdown and power of a x86 > computer in then linux kernell, or just how to verify that a device is power > off with a printk, or where to search or even only where is the part of code > doing this. There is many documentation about use device but nothing about > power off. > So your Toshiba is going into suspend instead of power off... There are several ways that computers shutdown but modern systems use ACPI. It could be that the 2.6.37-486-PAE was using a different method. I've CC'd the ACPI list. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
