Re: mach_reboot_fixups()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

> Not exactly - when rebooting through EFI or BIOS, the old code didn't 
> go through mach_reboot_fixups(), and I think that is the correct 
> behavior (albeit, when the EFI path fell back to the triple fault 
> mechanism, it should have honored the fixup logic, and I think it is 
> more correct that the new code tries the keyboard method first). 
> Perhaps the most reasonable way to go is to honor all reboot= settings 
> without using the override code first:

>  		case BOOT_KBD:
> +			mach_reboot_fixups(); /* for board specific fixups */

ok, agreed.

> (with the exception that reboot=keyboard will still have the effect of 
> honoring the fixups, but I think this is better than further 
> complicating the logic).

the fixups are really "emergency exceptions" - for (a very low number 
of) broken boards that just cannot reboot via the default BOOT_KBD 
method. In that sense it's a small detail how widely we apply the 
exceptions - those boards probably wont be rebooted via reboot=bios 
[people only use reboot options when they have trouble rebooting].

> In case you want to take this,
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

i modified the patch and added your signoff - thanks,

	Ingo