From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757970AbYC0Ld1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:33:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757355AbYC0LdN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:33:13 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:53028 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757390AbYC0LdM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:33:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:33:07 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked list of struct setup_data Message-Id: <20080327063307.ac323913.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1206601748.3067.22.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> References: <1206601748.3067.22.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Huang wrote: +/* setup data types */ +#define SETUP_NONE 0 + +/* extensible setup data list node */ +struct setup_data { + u64 next; + u32 type; + u32 len; + u8 data[0]; +}; I don't understand what purpose the 'type' field serves. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214