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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:42:56 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:52:15AM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On 31 May 2011 00:31, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > 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.

It's not entirely equivalent to the way the ACPI reboot method worked in 
previous kernels, so it should work better.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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