From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad A21 BIOS - EDD information wrong
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:30:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031011173024.GC22274@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310102143550.5365-100000@iguana.domsch.com>
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:46:05PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/raw_data
> > Hm, I thought you were going to use the sysfs binary file interface for
> > this file, instead of outputing a hex dump. Any reason for keeping it
> > this way?
>
> Laziness? No really, it just slipped my mind. I've got the read-disk-sig
> patch I'm working on related to EDD again, so I'll fix it right soon.
> Would that fit under Linus's 'bug-only' policy?
I would say yes, as it's a bug that the current code is implementing a
hex dump in kernel space :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-11 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 21:39 IBM Thinkpad A21 BIOS - EDD information wrong Matt_Domsch
2003-10-10 23:56 ` Greg KH
2003-10-11 2:46 ` Matt Domsch
2003-10-11 17:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
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