[PATCH] Shutdown cooloff feature

[Michel Talon]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> I'd also advocate "halt" meaning "shutdown
> -p", i.e. shutdown with poweroff instead of just stopping the kernel,
> which is mostly useless.

I would be very unhappy of such change. For example on my laptop
(Sony Vaio VGN-C1S which is now several years old) the FreeBSD ACPI
implementation (at least on FreeBSD-7.2) is such that, trying to
poweroff with -p doesn't succeed to really poweroff, but wedges the
machine. One needs to remove the battery to regain control and to be
able to power off using the power button. No need to say, suspend-resume
does the same. And as a point of comparison everything works OK under
Ubuntu.

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Michel TALON