Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757540Ab1E3Qbg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 12:31:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57489 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332Ab1E3Qbf (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 12:31:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE3C652.5090309@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:31:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel J Blueman CC: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk References: <1305248699-2347-1-git-send-email-daniel.blueman@gmail.com> <69e8f8a9-4e8b-4c02-b566-304ff837d166@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 26 On 05/30/2011 07:43 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > Without this patch, rebooting is like Russian roulette; with quite a > few of these laptops in the field, perhaps it is better to enable the > quirk unless you think there may be an issue in the kernel preventing > correct behaviour that I could debug? > > On the other hand, Dell may later fix the BIOS AML (seen with the > excellent fwts) just as the cure for cancer is found. If they do, I'll > buy whiskey too. > Enabling the quirk is the right thing; however, if ACPI worked I'd have preferred it since we just switched to ACPI as the default. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/