Disposition of Dell reboot quirks

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/12/2016 12:59 PM, Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- From: Tim Gardner
>> [mailto:tim.gardner at canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016
>> 1:53 PM To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com>; Leann
>> Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> Cc: kernel-team
>> <kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Disposition of Dell reboot
>> quirks
>> 
>> Do any of these laptops still exist after 5 years ?
>> 
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rtg/ubuntu-unstable.git/commit/?h=SAUCE&
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id=e93d620084f2a78546d28dd6d9eac770013aa000
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>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rtg/ubuntu- 
>> unstable.git/commit/?h=SAUCE&id=dcc3e2410c9fb09a4e7cc0739ef10579e3d
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fd79d
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>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rtg/ubuntu- 
>> unstable.git/commit/?h=SAUCE&id=d35b154825c581a94654c457677c7c6895f
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66f48
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>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rtg/ubuntu- 
>> unstable.git/commit/?h=SAUCE&id=bf1d20da99a56f5088094bca8c2d473ca28
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acb51
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>> rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
> 
> Some of those are desktops some are laptops.  They are between 4 and
> 5 years old.  They aren't for sale anymore, but I would expect
> they're still in the field in use at this point. I haven't heard from
> any of my team that these quirks have been needed on later machines,
> so whatever was causing this problem was probably fixed in the BIOS
> or in the kernel.
> 
> Could you send messages to some of the people who were affected
> (looks like details in the bug links) to test a modern kernel with
> the various quirks turned off?  That should be a good way to find out
> what the current situation is. Alternatively Canonical may still have
> a lot of this hardware and you can ask your certification team to
> check on these problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

meh, I'm lazy and busy. These are harmless and so far have 'caused no
merge problems. I'll leave them until after 18.04.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com