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Message-ID: <20080827131312.GA6221@ucw.cz> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:13:13 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI On Wed 2008-08-27 13:51:41, Avi Kivity wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >I'd not count of this. When you relegate laptop to > >"quiet home server" > >role, the mechanical stresses suddenly stop, and I'd > >expect it to > >survive for long long years. > > > > For every user who uses an old laptop as a home server, > or has a "best MIPS64 box", there are maybe five million > users with a 0-3 year old x86 computer (they don't know > that it's really a "box"). Five million... um yes, probably, and those five million users run Windows Vista... So lets not introduce regressions, please. (Anyway, the patch is probably good, but 'old machines do not matter' is not.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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