Teardown is just a specification on how to stop processes the most economic way, and is not related to this.
To easily compare between kernels, boot with the kernel option: init=/bin/bash (and take "quiet" and "splash" away). Then turn off the machine with "halt -f -p". My Compaq (with the via chipset) turns off quietly now, I think it has to do with the return to ide/pci/via82cxxx.ko from the ata/pata_via adventure. -- bad hard disk noise on shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/67810 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
