From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754648AbYINLl3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752876AbYINLlU (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:41:20 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4953 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752544AbYINLlU (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:41:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:22 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andi Kleen , Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit Message-ID: <20080914112222.GA3956@ucw.cz> References: <1221243468-8016-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080912122031.eca8723e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86802c440809121229i14727af4nd1416044b06ebb94@mail.gmail.com> <878wtxrrwh.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2008-09-12 23:19:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > "Yinghai Lu" writes: > > > > > > to see how wrong could be set by BIOS. > > > > Just dump it from user space then. There are plenty of tools > > to access ACPI tables. > > 1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ? We can dump in *any* kernel. > 2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel > output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type > whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output. Ooh, 'lets dump more junk at everyone, typing commands is hard' :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html