From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760825AbXFELzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:55:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754842AbXFELza (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:55:30 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:42827 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754855AbXFELz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 07:55:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 12:55:22 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Robert Hancock Cc: James Jarvis , Riley@Williams.Name, Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org, graham.newton@ed.ac.uk, kenneth.macdonald@ed.ac.uk Message-ID: <20070605115521.GA10634@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4664B306.5000107@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4664B306.5000107@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > This blacklist seems to be growing. Isn't there something better we can > do here? Can we just reboot through the BIOS by default, is that really > broken on some systems? Yes, that breaks a separate set of machines. It would be interesting to try resetting just by banging the keyboard controller from userspace, and seeing if that fails in the same way - I suspect that on certain hardware, part of the shutdown process confuses it in some way. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org