From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@gdeb.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.d.labriola@gmail.com,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
support@versalogic.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, reboot: skip DMI checks if reboot set by user
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:45:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120119154504.710e202e@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFD4BB6876.6D903346-ON8525798A.00550E62-8525798A.005562A3@gdeb.com>
> checking if reboot_type's value is anything other than BOOT_ACPI (which
> is the default), but that does assume BOOT_ACPI is the default. What if
> that's ever changed? Seems likely to me that whoever changes the default
> in the future could very easily re-break this at that point.
>
> Thoughts?
Fair point - how about a BOOT_DEFAULT define value if it hasn't been set
and we can just make it do the same as ACPI in the switch ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-19 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-17 15:16 [PATCH] x86, reboot: skip DMI checks if reboot set by user Michael D Labriola
2012-01-17 19:58 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-19 15:32 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-19 15:45 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-01-19 15:48 ` Michael D Labriola
[not found] ` <OF8642E997.5ED041E1-ON8525798A.0056983A-8525798A.0056E05B@LocalDomain>
2012-01-19 17:46 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-19 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 19:14 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-19 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-19 19:34 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-19 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
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