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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ibft: Fix finding IBFT ACPI table on UEFI
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:16:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE12948.30508@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208190808.GA25433@andromeda.dapyr.net>

On 12/08/2011 11:08 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 08:52:33AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Found one system with UEFI/iBFT, Kernel does not detect the iBFT during
>                                    ^^^^^ - lowercase 'kernel' please.
>> iscsi_ibft module loading.
> 
> I get this when compiling it:
> 
> Setup is 16588 bytes (padded to 16896 bytes).
> System is 6277 kB
> CRC 7fe65506
> Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#2)
> ERROR: "find_ibft_region" [drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.ko] undefined!
> 
> This is on i386 x86 build when doing 'make allmodconfig'.


then will need more cleaner change.

> 
>>
>> the root cause: for x86, We have calling of find_ibft_region() much early.
>                           ^^ - You only need to uppercase it if you
> start a sentence - which is not what you are doing. So please make it
> lowercase.
>> in setup_arch() before ACPI is enabled.
> 
> This is what I changed the git description to:
> 
>  Root cause: on x86 (UEFI), we are calling find_ibft_region() much
>  earlier - specifically in setup_arch() before ACPI is enabled.
> 


will use that...

Thanks

Yinghai

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  8:22 [PATCH] ibft: Fix finding ibft with ACPI tables Yinghai Lu
2011-12-08 14:29 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-08 15:01   ` Peter Jones
2011-12-08 16:51   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-12-08 16:52   ` [PATCH -v2] ibft: Fix finding IBFT ACPI table on UEFI Yinghai Lu
2011-12-08 19:08     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-08 21:16       ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2011-12-08 21:17       ` [PATCH -v3] " Yinghai Lu
2011-12-12 17:17         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-12 20:39           ` Yinghai Lu

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