Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757557Ab1E3QwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 12:52:17 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:61456 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753383Ab1E3QwQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 12:52:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Z/BOGuU7Ty5cJsUgZza9oaxAHLfUQL2jUNwWdLuHWv93c3wuix+Sr0YsYA7c6wyTh2 y4yXLLImcMO93kTd79bQ6TCOWHWqnq8XO2e8EBXTOcL4dK8GnMn7l9FrBO5aFQQQL9Hc sLlqVRGVYrJJ7dLYG3CP1dUdHjqXJ6foJnW+Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DE3C652.5090309@zytor.com> References: <1305248699-2347-1-git-send-email-daniel.blueman@gmail.com> <69e8f8a9-4e8b-4c02-b566-304ff837d166@email.android.com> <4DE3C652.5090309@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:52:15 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk From: Daniel J Blueman To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1114 Lines: 28 On 31 May 2011 00:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Indeed - the new and default ACPI reboot method works perfectly in 3.0-rc1, whereas with 2.6.39, it didn't, so no further need for this patch then. Thanks again, Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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/