* One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If kernel_power_off() is called then the system should power off. No ifs and > > whens. > > Even if it doesn't the watchdog should kill it. > > That is broken on some platforms on the watchdog side as the > watchdog shuts down during our power off callbacks - because the system > firmware is too stupid to reset the watchdog as it powers back up (so > keeps rebooting). > > If you watchdog and firmware function properly you shouldn't even have to > care if you crash during the kernel power off. That's a good point as well - if the system is 'stuck' for some notion of stuck, then watchdog drivers can help. Here it's unclear whether user-space even called the sys_reboot() system call. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
