Comment 13 for bug 833705

Hi Achim,

So I submitted this patch upstream but got some pushback from one of the maintainers, "we are starting to have something close to a full Dell product catalog in the system. I think we need to come up with something more systematic...". So I've gone ahead and sent this to the Ubuntu kernel team mailing list for consideration to carry this patch until a more systematic solution can be found which upstream will accept.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2011-August/016886.html

In the mean time, I think it would also be better to open up a separate bug report for the E6220 reboot issue (feel free to assign me to the bug and reference this bug). The reason I say this is because the E6220 will require a different patch (albeit similar). And if the patch for the E6520 is accepted for the Ubuntu kernel, this bug will be autoclosed and I still want to ensure we have a bug open to track the issue for the E6220. Thanks.