[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Oct 7 15:35:47 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From aac23f3a172dcf5a7184911211180e6d081fa9a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masoud Sharbiani <msharbiani at twitter.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:59:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci
 automatically

commit 4f0acd31c31f03ba42494c8baf6c0465150e2621 upstream.

Dell PowerEdge C6100 machines fail to completely reboot about 20% of the time.

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <msharbiani at twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee <vlee at twitter.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt at sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt at mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379717947-18042-1-git-send-email-vlee@freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index 2a29384..d1ef8a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -459,6 +459,22 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata reboot_dmi_table[] = {
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Precision M6600"),
 		},
 	},
+	{	/* Handle problems with rebooting on the Dell PowerEdge C6100. */
+		.callback = set_pci_reboot,
+		.ident = "Dell PowerEdge C6100",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "C6100"),
+		},
+	},
+	{	/* Some C6100 machines were shipped with vendor being 'Dell'. */
+		.callback = set_pci_reboot,
+		.ident = "Dell PowerEdge C6100",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell"),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "C6100"),
+		},
+	},
 	{ }
 };

--
1.8.3.2





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