linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 17:42:56 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:52:15AM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On 31 May 2011 00:31, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> > Enabling the quirk is the right thing; however, if ACPI worked I'd have
> > preferred it since we just switched to ACPI as the default.
> 
> Indeed - the new and default ACPI reboot method works perfectly in
> 3.0-rc1, whereas with 2.6.39, it didn't, so no further need for this
> patch then.

It's not entirely equivalent to the way the ACPI reboot method worked in 
previous kernels, so it should work better.

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