From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934428AbXGQPO7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:14:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759114AbXGQPOu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:14:50 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:23533 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754981AbXGQPOt (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:14:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=SrwNz4pL2o6ovgXRdnAavLLXhMJOHykiCXvhuCmLfYAwLOJDSZxqSmaY4Vv5Rw4su ZTUL9+d8CSkzbT+rQVtKw== Message-ID: <8f95bb250707170814w61b91a4dtf8a2c28505445516@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:14:42 -0700 From: "Aaron Durbin" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Make ACPI the default reset option Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <200707171332.31519.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070716180221.GA5370@google.com> <200707171332.31519.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2007 20:02:21 Aaron Durbin wrote: > > > > Make ACPI be the default reset method for x86_64. If the reset mechanism fails > > using ACPI, it will default to using the keyboard controller. > > Again why? > > You really can't just throw out these patches without any explanation. > Sorry. It was more of just getting a proposal on thoughts on making this default. I wasn't too sure it would fly. :) I should have been more explicit with my intentions. It does fix some broken systems I have seen though with no ill side effects. I would like to see this tested on more than the systems I have access to in order to see what kind of fall out there is. -Aaron