> Certainly, it should just immediately power the system off. There is a > soft shutdown option if you want a graceful shutdown. > > The spec says: > > 0 - power down. Force system into soft off (S4/S45) state. This is for > ‘emergency’ management power down actions. The command > does not initiate a clean shut-down of the operating system prior to > powering down the system. > > I would say the system in question is not compliant, to me, 6 seconds an > "force" are not the same thing :).
You're right. The BMC firmware needs fixing! >>> It might be best to remove, or at least disable normally, the config >>> option in most systems. That way systems that really needed it could >>> have it, but it wouldn't affect most people. >> Which config option do you refer to here? Something that disables the >> IPMI power off function? > > Yes, CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF Ok. This is set as a module in my config. Maybe I should blacklist this module from loading. Thanks for your help. -mandeep > > -corey > >> Thanks for your time. >> >> Regards, >> -mandeep >> >>> -corey >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> -mandeep > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
