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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:07:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: print out in e820_update_range()
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* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> Impact: to find crazy calling
> 
> try to print out more info, to catch wrong calling

Could we detect incorrect parameters more directly as well, via 
a check and a panic()?

	Ingo