From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267970AbUHKLKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268024AbUHKLKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:10:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:26552 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267970AbUHKLKh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:10:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:54:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Dave Jones , Jesper Juhl , LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH][trivial] line up 'ESR value before/after enabling vector' messages Message-ID: <20040811105448.GA17743@elte.hu> References: <20040811062314.GA32700@elte.hu> <20040811104735.GA24149@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040811104735.GA24149@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Dave Jones wrote: > Has this printk actually been useful ? ever ? I notice a majority of > the time, it never changes too. If it is useful, how about changing it > so it prints something if the value changed ? (Something like patch > below maybe?) Or is possible for the APIC to lock up between the two > printk's ? it was used to debug secondary-CPU startup problems many years ago. It is also useful to see whether it's a real APIC we got there. I'd suggest to remove the message altogether. Ingo