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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:42:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531164256.GA8971@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinnEPKC+Nb7zK_PswU+M=sNPxWCig@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-13  1:04 [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk Daniel J Blueman
     [not found] ` <69e8f8a9-4e8b-4c02-b566-304ff837d166@email.android.com>
2011-05-13  3:16   ` Daniel J Blueman
2011-05-30 14:43     ` Daniel J Blueman
2011-05-30 16:31       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-30 16:52         ` Daniel J Blueman
2011-05-30 17:02           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-05-31 16:42           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-07-01 16:05           ` Daniel J Blueman
2011-07-21 18:33 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Make Dell Latitude E5420 use reboot=pci tip-bot for Daniel J Blueman
2011-07-21 18:48 ` tip-bot for Daniel J Blueman

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