Re: [PATCH] ehci: Param to skip BIOS handoff negotiation

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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:36:21AM -0700, Andy Ross wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 09:24 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ick.
> 
> Yeah, agreed.  This at least was something I knew how to do.
> 
> Really, I was half hoping someone would pipe up with a known issue and
> an existing fix. :)

"Fix the BIOS" :)

> I'll see about trying to find the right BIOS people, but I have
> minimal visibility there: this is a device that's already in the
> market, I'm just chasing MeeGo issues on it.

BIOSes can be updated, right?

> > At worse case, could we trigger off of known DMI strings for the
> > broken machines?
> 
> This sounds good.  The code in question is a PCI quirk; is the DMI
> info available at that point?  I'll investigate.

Well the PCI data is there, so DMI is also around, you could trigger off
of a known PCI id on the bridge if needed as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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