From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965047AbXCANUF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:20:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965049AbXCANUF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:20:05 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33919 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965047AbXCANUE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:20:04 -0500 Message-ID: <45E6D309.5050409@suse.de> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:20:09 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?SUSE_LINUX_Products_GmbH=2C_GF=3A_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Rex=2C_HRB_16746_=28AG_N=FCrnberg=29?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones , Gerd Hoffmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Williamson , Kevin Stansell Subject: Re: [patch] Add insmod option to force the use of the backup timer. References: <20070228102346.115707000@suse.de> <20070228185505.GA17193@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20070228185505.GA17193@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:23:46AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > The test which automatically enables the backup timer on some HP > > machines doesn't trigger on other hardware which needs the backup > > timer too. > > Did you figure out *why* that test doesn't trigger? I didn't, probably a slightly different hardware bug. > Making that work seems a better solution to me than adding magic > options that users won't know they have to use. Sure, that would be better. I'll leave that to the ibm guys who own the hardware in question ;) cheers, Gerd -- Gerd Hoffmann