From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757243Ab2CVWgg (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:36 -0400 Received: from mailout08.t-online.de ([194.25.134.20]:59363 "EHLO mailout08.t-online.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756566Ab2CVWgf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:36:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4F6BA960.6020003@t-online.de> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:36:16 +0100 From: Knut Petersen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120215 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , Linus Torvalds , arekm@maven.pl, Jared , dilieto@lineone.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: override for PCI legacy power management References: <4F69BE2E.7070903@t-online.de> <20120321083205.360a7a3b@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ID: rxE5u0ZJwhtKH5KKYG8mSuZ1Mp5Jb4JpH3ozZewLz+fubt4NXtQguWfFjJ33BtQg80 X-TOI-MSGID: 84487b8e-9e6f-4e08-846f-c4a69e8549bd Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 21.03.2012 21:22, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas: > It looks like this requires a user to figure out that he might be suffering from this problem, then use this module parameter to work around it. How would a user figure that out? Can we do it automatically to save him the trouble? Itīs easy to dmi_match() known broken systems - I have dmidecode outputs of four systems that definitely need the patch. Two ASUSTek P5* mainboards with AMI BIOSes, two AOpen i915G* mainboards with Award/Phoenix BIOSes. cu, Knut