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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matt.Domsch@dell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:41:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071222024145.GA6062@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <476C74F1.2070407@zytor.com>

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:22:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Ok, that's a different argument than before. Ok. Although it's
> >only a few bytes. 
> >
> >I would lobby for any message at least contain the suggestion to try
> >edd=off. That could save users a lot of time.
> 
> The important thing is that there is a message before and after.  The 
> rest can be dealt with by Google on in documentation.  That's what the 

That means every user needs to waste at least 5 minutes to google/read
docs and be annoyed by someone's ads. Collective waste.

Just adding "Try edd=off if this hangs"  is ~23 bytes  and adding
that should be hardly a problem even in your 32k. Or perhaps if you're more
worried about code size than grammer "edd=off when hang" @)

-Andi



  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-22  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-16 15:34 [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD devzero
2007-12-16 17:34 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  1:15   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  1:48     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  1:57       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  2:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  2:41           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-16 19:11 devzero
2007-12-16 19:59 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 20:18   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-17 23:25     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-17 23:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18  0:10       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-18  0:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-16 19:19 devzero
2007-12-16 21:04 devzero
2007-12-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox

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