From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Tim Gardner <rtg@tpi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tim.gardner@ubuntu.com,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:52:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705300052.59212.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070529153331.7b643698.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 19:12 [PATCH 1/1] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug Tim Gardner
2007-05-26 2:58 ` Matt Domsch
2007-05-29 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-29 22:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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