Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: override for PCI legacy power management

From: Knut Petersen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:36:16 +0100

Am 21.03.2012 21:22, schrieb Bjorn Helgaas:
> It looks like this requires a user to figure out that he might be suffering 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 save him the trouble?

It´s easy to dmi_match() known broken systems - I have dmidecode outputs 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