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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@endlessm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@endlessm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/reboot, efi: Use EFI reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T"
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:02:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200316100201.GG26126@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPpJ_eetjhmPwXXXn2y-vibRCK6rrKsFZgC+YGzxO4fMrCKpuQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 05:17:56PM +0800, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
> But, that will raise another question:  Since the original quirk works
> for all Acer X514-51T and the quirk cannot be removed for older BIOS.
> Why not keep only original matching items for all Acer X514-51T
> laptops?

What does the "original matching items" mean?

> I am not sure which option is better.  Any comment?

If you mean, "let's not do anything and fix it only when there's really
a need to fix anything", then yes, I agree.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-16 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-12  8:33 [PATCH] Revert "x86/reboot, efi: Use EFI reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T" Jian-Hong Pan
2020-03-12 10:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-16  9:17   ` Jian-Hong Pan
2020-03-16 10:02     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-03-18  6:58       ` Jian-Hong Pan
2020-03-20 12:37   ` Daniel Drake
2020-03-20 13:54     ` Borislav Petkov

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