[PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 20:43:42 EST 2008
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:30:43PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8fd145917fb62368a9b80db59562c20576238f5a
>
> This patch ignores the RESET_REG_SUP flag and just tries using the reset
> register anyway if it thinks it's valid. So we may attempt ACPI reset on
> machines which don't indicate it's supported.
Yeah, that sounds very wrong.
> The patch description mentioned that some machines didn't reboot after
> S3 suspend without this patch. However, we recently had this patch merged:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a68823ee5285e65b51ceb96f8b13a5b4f99a6888
>
> Is it possible that the problem fixed there is the true cause of this
> reboot after S3 problem?
Oh, yeah, could be. Given the From:, I should really have thought of
that :)
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