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Date:	Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:11:03 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ThinkPad T400 : should kernel option "reboot=pci" be hard
	coded ?

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> Since some kernel version (IIRC since 2.6.31) it is necessary to boot the 
> linux kernel with that option to prevent an extra 9 seconds delay during 
> reboot.
> I found this tip on the LKML -and now I'm wondering whether this option should 
> be hard coded in the kernel sources b/c it seems to be necessary for current 
> kernels too.

No, the best thing to do would be to figure out what changed to require 
the extra 9 seconds. Are you able to work out which the last kernel 
release without this timeout was?

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