From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:52:58 +0200
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Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Tim Gardner <rtg@tpi.com>,
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On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 21:58:09 -0500
>
> Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:12:44PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > > From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug.
> > >
> > > Force Dell E520 to use the BIOS to shutdown/reboot.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
> >
> > Thanks Tim for submitting this.
>
> Do you think this is also required in 2.6.21.x?

People can always set the boot option. It hardly seems like a critical issue
needing a backport.

> Andi: ack for 2.6.22 inclusion?

Ok. 

At some point we'll likely need to change the default anyways; the 
keyboard controller method seems to become flakier and flakier.
I was actually thinking about using ACPI reset instead though.

-Andi
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