Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again)

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On Saturday, 8 of November 2008, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > > -enum reboot_type reboot_type = BOOT_KBD;
> > > +enum reboot_type reboot_type = BOOT_ACPI;
> 
> > NAK.
> > 
> > Your point that the set of systems where KBD-reboot is broken is 
> > larger (and growing) than the set of systems where ACPI-reboot is 
> > broken (which set probably has a constant size) is true.
> > 
> > But still this change caused non-trivial regressions in v28 _worse_ 
> > than the inability to reboot cleanly, so this patch does not fly as-is 
> > as we reverted it upstream for a good reason.
> 
> If you can direct me to the failures that ACPI reset caused
> in 28, that would be great.  Obviously they are not on
> the linux-acpi archives because the x86 tree enabled
> ACPI reset and then disabled it w/o telling us...

I think I have one machine with this problem at the Uni (it's an NForce4-based
desktop with Athlon64 X2).  I won't be there before Wednesday, though.

Thanks,
Rafael
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