On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 15:29 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 10:10:04AM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:34:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:20 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 02:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > > Would this be a sensible addition to 3.16-stable or any older stable
> > > > > branch?
> > > > >
> > > > > commit 44be28e9dd9880dca3e2cbf7a844f2114e67f2cb
> > > > > Author: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Date: Fri Jun 13 12:39:55 2014 +0100
> > > > >
> > > > > x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure what the support for ACPI hardware-reduced platforms (ASUS
> > > > T100, etc) is like in the stable releases but if it does exist then yeah
> > > > you probably want the above commit. The above commit should be a pretty
> > > > low-risk change.
> > >
> > > I understand that the Asus T100 at least is mostly working under 3.16.
> > >
> > > > Be sure to also include commit 8562c99cdd30 ("efi/reboot: Add generic
> > > > wrapper around EfiResetSystem()") and commit 0c5ed61adbdb ("efi/reboot:
> > > > Allow powering off machines using EFI").
> > >
>
> Ok, it looks like the easy approach to bring this into 3.16 is to pick
> the following commits (in this order):
>
> eeb9db09f738 x86/efi: Move all workarounds to a separate file quirks.c
> 8562c99cdd30 efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem()
> 0c5ed61adbdb efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI
> 44be28e9dd98 x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
>
> All of these are clean cherry-picks (except for the last one that
> needs same really small context adjustment). If there's no objection,
> I'll be sending this out for review shortly.
The first one is really too big according to stable rules. Sorry I
raised this; I didn't realise there were all these dependencies.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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