Re: [PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"

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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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