Re: port-i386/40751: power button does not work after halt

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/40751; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
To: M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
 gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/40751: power button does not work after halt
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:29:38 -0500

 Matthias Drochner wrote:
 > jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost said:
 >> Does the attached patch help? 
 > 
 > While pressing the power button for 4 seconds or so is OK for me:
 > Your patch works as intended on my box, but I'd limit its effect
 > to the RB_HALT case because it is just a possible point of failure
 > and might hang an unattended reboot if something goes wrong.
 
 I wasn't sure what to do there, do we want the power button to behave 
 differently if reboot fails? What's the likelyhood of reboot actually 
 failing at that stage?