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From: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DMAR] Fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:31:25 -0500
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Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> (copying relevant people)
>>
>> Tony Battersby wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> +                            "Invalid 0-length structure\n");
>>>       
>
> This line is everything the reader of your message will see, (unless it happens
> not to be the first ACPI error). I would not be able to tell the cause without
> grepping the kernel source.
>
>
>   

Well, there is a PREFIX of "DMAR:" in the message too.  And I do not
think it is any less informative than any of the other error messages in
the same function, e.g. "Invalid DMAR haw", or "Unknown DMAR structure
type".

Tony