Bug 463799

Summary: [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201747:Shutdown actions interface (kernel)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: kernelAssignee: Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: ejratl, notting, peterm
Target Milestone: alphaKeywords: FutureFeature
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Hardware: s390x   
OS: All   
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Last Closed: 2009-09-17 10:48:28 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 356741, 515068    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-24 18:50:39 UTC
=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-24 13:51 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201747]
a. Name of Feature:	Shutdown actions interface (kernel)
b. Feature Description
Implement a sysfs interface to associate actions to shutdown triggers.    
Shutdown triggers:
    - reboot
    - halt
    - power off
    - panic.        
Shutdown actions:
    - stop
    - IPL
    - reIPL
    - dump
    - perform VM command

Additional Comments:	This feature has a userspace part, that is 201148 Shutdown actions interface
(userspace)

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	zSeries
Architectures:
s390x

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Core Kernel: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	RAS
Request Type:	Kernel - Enhancement from IBM
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	2.6.25

3. Business Case
This feature enables a better availability of the system and service actions so that the customer
improve his system reliability and service, in case of, for example, a kernel panics.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

IBM Manager:
Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-03 15:17:22 UTC
See bug 463824 - is there a reason this can't be done in a generic way?

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-02-05 05:30:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> See bug 463824 - is there a reason this can't be done in a generic way?
>

It cannot be done in a generic way because "ipl", "reipl", "dump dasd and SCSI" and "vm commands" are specific to the System z Arch.

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-03 22:31:31 UTC
This feature has a required co-feature request to be complete
That is:
48440 ??-?? RHBZ 463806 [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201748:Shutdown actions interface (userspace)

Comment 4 Hans-Joachim Picht 2009-09-17 10:48:28 UTC
Code is included in the rhel6 kernel via upstream. Marked as CLOSED/CURRENTRELEASE by by Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>

Comment 5 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-09-29 12:51:42 UTC
------- Comment From gmuelas.com 2010-09-29 08:45 EDT-------
This feature is still being verified, but we do not expect any issues here and
will be verified before GA.

Comment 6 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-10-21 07:41:44 UTC
------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-10-21 03:32 EDT-------
This feature is verified on RHEL 6 snapshot -> set to verified