This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci automatically

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-reboot-add-quirk-to-make-dell-c6100-use-reboot-pci-automatically.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 4f0acd31c31f03ba42494c8baf6c0465150e2621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masoud Sharbiani <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:59:07 -0700
Subject: x86/reboot: Add quirk to make Dell C6100 use reboot=pci automatically

From: Masoud Sharbiani <[email protected]>

commit 4f0acd31c31f03ba42494c8baf6c0465150e2621 upstream.

Dell PowerEdge C6100 machines fail to completely reboot about 20% of the time.

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Holt <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -460,6 +460,22 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata p
                        DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Precision M6600"),
                },
        },
+       {       /* Handle problems with rebooting on the Dell PowerEdge C6100. 
*/
+               .callback = set_pci_reboot,
+               .ident = "Dell PowerEdge C6100",
+               .matches = {
+                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "C6100"),
+               },
+       },
+       {       /* Some C6100 machines were shipped with vendor being 'Dell'. */
+               .callback = set_pci_reboot,
+               .ident = "Dell PowerEdge C6100",
+               .matches = {
+                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell"),
+                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "C6100"),
+               },
+       },
        { }
 };
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.0/x86-reboot-add-quirk-to-make-dell-c6100-use-reboot-pci-automatically.patch
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