From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753559AbXJ3Idr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:33:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751997AbXJ3Ida (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:33:30 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:17250 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751816AbXJ3Id2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:33:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:33:20 +0200 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Mark Gross Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" , lkml , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu-PMEN_REG boot up support Message-ID: <20071030083320.GA8727@rhun.ibm.com> References: <20071026181849.GA25256@linux.intel.com> <20071027001938.GB10215@rhun.ibm.com> <20071029203130.GA1734@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071029203130.GA1734@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:31:30PM -0700, Mark Gross wrote: > > What's the value of adding a command line option for this? Under > > what circumstances would we want to not clear this bit? > > umm, /me asks around and finds out that at this time there isn't > much point to having a command line to preserve any protected areas > set up at boot time. The society for controlled proliferation of command line options thanks you. > Signed-off-by: mark gross Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cheers, Muli -- SYSTOR 2007 --- 1st Annual Haifa Systems and Storage Conference 2007 http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/systor2007/ Virtualization workshop: Oct 29th, 2007 | Storage workshop: Oct 30th, 2007