In 4.18, pressing the ATTN button on an nvme drive would gracefully power off the drive. In 4.19 and subsequent kernels, the drive immediately turns back on again. 4.18: pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Attention button pressed pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Powering off due to button press pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Link Down pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Already disabled 4.19: [ 225.066422] pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Attention button pressed [ 225.066428] pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Powering off due to button press [ 233.271306] pciehp 0000:40:01.1:pcie004: Slot(3-1): Card present [ 233.399304] pci 0000:42:00.0: [8086:0a54] type 00 class 0x010802 [ 233.399339] pci 0000:42:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00003fff 64bit] [ 233.399372] pci 0000:42:00.0: Max Payload Size set to 256 (was 128, max 512) [ 233.399376] pci 0000:42:00.0: enabling Extended Tags [ 233.399649] pci 0000:42:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xac000000-0xac003fff 64bit] [ 233.399661] pcieport 0000:40:01.1: PCI bridge to [bus 42] [ 233.399666] pcieport 0000:40:01.1: bridge window [io 0x7000-0x7fff] [ 233.399672] pcieport 0000:40:01.1: bridge window [mem 0xac000000-0xac0fffff] [ 233.399677] pcieport 0000:40:01.1: bridge window [mem 0x3a000200000-0x3a0003fffff 64bit pref] [ 233.400886] nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:42:00.0 [ 233.400966] nvme 0000:42:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 234.293812] nvme1n2: p1 p2 p3 I believe this is linked to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d331710ea78fea8b10624c87546d8bc0cd0389c9