From: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: override for PCI legacy power management
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:36:16 +0100
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, arekm@maven.pl,
	Jared <nitro@legroom.net>, dilieto@lineone.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
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Am 21.03.2012 21:22, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> It looks like this requires a user to figure out that he might be suf=
fering from this problem, then use this module parameter to work around=
 it. How would a user figure that out? Can we do it automatically to sa=
ve him the trouble?

It=B4s easy to dmi_match() known broken systems - I have dmidecode outp=
uts of four systems that definitely need the patch.
Two ASUSTek P5* mainboards with AMI BIOSes, two AOpen i915G* mainboards=
 with Award/Phoenix BIOSes.

cu,
  Knut