The following reply was made to PR kern/37506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
To: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/37506: Have to hold power button for 5 seconds to turn off Laptop after "halt" command.
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:43 +0200

 On Sun Dec 09 2007 at 10:50:29 -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
 > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Antti Kantee wrote:
 > >No, it's not.  The submitter clearly stated you don't get the delay with
 > >a non-acpi kernel.
 > 
 > And that's normal. As soon as we take control over the soft power button 
 > (by entering ACPI mode), this is how things work. A short press generates 
 > an interrupt, and a long press bypasses this mechanism and powers off the 
 > machine directly. Since the kernel is already halted at this point, 
 > we can't really handle it.
 
 Then don't call it expected behaviour, call it an expected bug.
 I certainly don't expect it and frankly it annoys me if I accidentally
 mistype halt without -p and am not quick enough to tap the power button
 before the kernel halts.
 
 -- 
 Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
 http://www.iki.fi/pooka/                          http://www.NetBSD.org/
     "la qualité la plus indispensable du cuisinier est l'exactitude"