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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080914112222.GA3956@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809122313440.13819@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>

On Fri 2008-09-12 23:19:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > to see how wrong could be set by BIOS.
> > 
> > Just dump it from user space then.  There are plenty of tools
> > to access ACPI tables.
> 
> 1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ?

We can dump in *any* kernel.

> 2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel
>    output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type
>    whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output.

Ooh, 'lets dump more junk at everyone, typing commands is hard' :-(.

							Pavel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12 18:17 [PATCH] apci: dump slit Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-12 19:29   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 20:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-12 21:17       ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:44         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 21:11     ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:19       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 21:30         ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:41           ` Matt Keenan
2008-09-12 21:49           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 22:14             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:54           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 22:29             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-14 11:22         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-09-14 12:26           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 15:59             ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 16:00               ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 16:04               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 18:13                 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-18 18:26                 ` Andi Kleen

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