Re: [PATCH] x86, reboot: skip DMI checks if reboot set by user

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 10:44:22 EST


> 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
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