From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758327AbYILVUh (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:20:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755294AbYILVU3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:20:29 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:37154 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753167AbYILVU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:20:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:19:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andi Kleen cc: Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit In-Reply-To: <878wtxrrwh.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: 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> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ? 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. Nervertheless the changelog of the patch needs some useful information why we actually need this information. Thanks, tglx