[Gta04-owner] Linux 3.2-rc3 on GTA04

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:47:01 +0100 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller"
<hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> 
> Am 30.11.2011 um 08:08 schrieb NeilBrown:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:34:09 +0100 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller"
> > <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Am 30.11.2011 um 01:48 schrieb NeilBrown:
> >> 
> >>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:17:04 +0000 Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.homelinux.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> On 28.11.2011 23:58, Neil Jerram wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> A few other things to report...
> >>>> 
> >>>> 1. I don't think the phone is shutting down fully when I say "shutdown 
> >>>> -h now" and then remove the USB cable, whereas the hw-validation kernel 
> >>>> did.  Is it a known problem?  If not, is there something I can do to pin 
> >>>> it down more precisely?
> >>> 
> >>> Yes, I noticed that too.
> >>> 
> >>> The only strategy I know of to get more info is to read the code, try to
> >>> follow what is meant to happen, and put in "printk" statements to find out
> >>> what actually happens.
> >>> 
> >>> (... uses "git grep" a bit a looks around ....)
> >>> 
> >>> The key information is the "pm_power_off" variable.
> >>> Something needs to set this to make power_off happen.
> >>> In the hw-validation kernel, drivers/mfd/twl4030-power.c
> >>> sets it.  In the mainline kernel nothing does.
> >> 
> >> I think we also have added:
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/goldelico/gta04-kernel/commit/d8c5533f5695ec948dea89fba332144644584680#arch/arm/kernel/process.c
> > 
> > Ahh... I think that is "wrong".  i.e. it'll never go upstream.
> 
> Well, it made "halt" do what (apparently we all) are thinking it
> should do :)
> 
> Especially if that is a command that easily makes the machine
> hang in a state where you can only remove the battery or
> wait until it is drained...

Doesn't holding the power button for 8 seconds force a reboot?

> 
> Maybe we should suggest the patch (as the default halt action)
> and learn the arguments against it?

It turns out the that default halt action can be adjusted by
modifying the /etc/init.t/halt script.

So that is probably the best way forward.

This won't affect "halt -f", but when you use --force, you should expect to
get exactly what you asked for.

> > 
> > I don't see the point in running lots of shutdown scripts - when I want to
> > power off, I want it of *now* :-)
> 
> Sometimes these scripts do a cleanup you have forgotten or don't
> even know about it... Most importantly they do a sync.

The thing is that my phone needs to survive falling out of my pocket and the
battery jumping out - it happens much more often than I like :-(

So if there are going to be problems with sudden unclean shutdown, I want to
find out about them during testing :-)


NeilBrown
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