linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sky2: override for PCI legacy power management

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Message-ID: <4F6BA960.6020003@t-online.de>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:36:16 +0100
From:	Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, arekm@...en.pl,
	Jared <nitro@...room.net>, dilieto@...eone.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: override for PCI legacy power management

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?

It´s 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
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