Re: [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:30:27 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/04/2010 09:15 AM, Len Brown wrote:
> > 
> > I believe that Venki is sending a patch to make all recent
> > motherboards use acpi reset by default; and I'd rather
> > see that kind of patch than this one.
> > 
> > I've had the patch below patch in acpi-test, and thus linus-next,
> > and -mm since Nov 2008 to change the default for
> > all systems w/ no issues.
> > 
> 
> Maybe I'm misremembering, but didn't we have to pull this patch after
> it hit mainstream the last time?

can we do it based on the dmi/acpi year?
Eg for all 2008 and later machines or something, while leaving the
older ones as is



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