Re: [patch] Re: Magic Alt-SysRq change in 2.6.18-rc1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 19:45:19 EST


Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > BTW I believe that original way (alt down, sysrq down, b down) still
> > works before and after the patch.
>
> No, it doesn't.
>
> > Here's patch that updates docs with now-working trick.
>
> NACK.
>

Nack your nack! The patch in 2.6.18-rc1 makes sysrq work on machines on
which it *did not work at all*. If that makes it harder to type but still
possible to type on other machines, well, we win.

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