On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 03:05:47PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> Anyway, this is ripe for problems and issues in the long-run, what is so
> special about this hardware that it can not just shutdown in the
> existing order that it has to be "first" over everyone else?  What
> exactly does this prevent and what devices are requiring this?

> And most importantly, what has changed in the past 20+ years to
> suddenly require this new functionality and how does any other operating
> system handle it?

This came out of some discussions about trying to handle emergency power
failure notifications.