On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:31:54PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> there are some drivers that want to behave different between shutdown
> for reboot/halt and shutdown for powerdown and /suspend. Into this class
> at least the disk drivers fall (PR 37508 for reference).

I settled down on just using the using boothowto in combination with
doing_shutdown, which also covers the panic case.

Joerg