Re: [PATCH] x86: tidy e820 output

David Rientjes
2010-09-22T22:46:39Z

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > It's true, they don't (well, everything below 4G still lines up, but
> > not above that). Do you like this any better?
> >
>
> That's fine with me. I don't mind the [mem ] bracket either if you
> think it's useful.
>

This patch is going to break our userspace parsing scripts if you change
the output format. Admittedly, we're probably one of the few users who
actually parses this output, but we do have reasons to do it for our
firmware. If there was some improvement being introduced here, we'd
happily handle multiple regexs (we constantly add new patterns when new
kernels are released), but I'm not seeing how this is better.