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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Magic Alt-SysRq change in 2.6.18-rc1
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Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > BTW I believe that original way (alt down, sysrq down, b down) still
> > works before and after the patch.
> 
> No, it doesn't.
> 
> > Here's patch that updates docs with now-working trick.
> 
> NACK.
> 

Nack your nack!  The patch in 2.6.18-rc1 makes sysrq work on machines on
which it *did not work at all*.  If that makes it harder to type but still
possible to type on other machines, well, we win.