From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753199AbXLVCk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:40:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751555AbXLVCkv (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:40:51 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:55365 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751518AbXLVCkv (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:40:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:41:45 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt.Domsch@dell.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD Message-ID: <20071222024145.GA6062@one.firstfloor.org> References: <49015158@web.de> <47656B9E.3040405@zytor.com> <476C6D06.2070301@zytor.com> <20071222015758.GC4477@one.firstfloor.org> <476C74F1.2070407@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476C74F1.2070407@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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