Re: [PATCH] x86: Add Dell E5420 reboot quirk

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 12:43:15 EST


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:52:15AM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On 31 May 2011 00:31, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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