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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Song, Youquan" <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	trenn@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, x2apic: enable the bios request for x2apic optout
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:09:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312067391.22074.58.camel@i7.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311987173.12777.7.camel@sbsiddha-mobl2>

On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:52 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> +               WARN(!eim, KERN_WARNING "Your BIOS is broken and requested that"
> +                          " x2apic be disabled\n This will leave your machine"
> +                          " vulnerable to irq-injection attacks\n Use"
> +                          " 'intremap=no_x2apic_optout' to override BIOS "
> +                          "request\n"); 

Please don't break strings, except at the \n. I think checkpatch.pl even
has an exception to its 80-column rule for this, these days?

If I see this message and search in the kernel source for the string
'requested that x2apic be disabled', I should be able to find it.

-- 
dwmw2


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-30 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-30  0:52 Suresh Siddha
2011-07-30 23:09 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2011-08-01  3:01   ` Suresh Siddha
2011-08-06  7:00     ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-08 17:48       ` Suresh Siddha

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