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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Villalovos <jvillalo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"John L. Villalovos" <john.l.villalovos@intel.com>,
	prarit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 23:00:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110204220007.GA6052@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4C4C4D.40106@zytor.com>


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 02/04/2011 09:48 AM, John Villalovos wrote:
> > x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique
> > 
> > There are five identical "broken BIOS!!" messages.  This patch makes each
> > message unique so that it is easier to determine which message was actually
> > printed.
> > 
> > The 'inconceivable' messages are because it should not be possible to reach
> > those code paths.
> 
> How about labelling these "MPBIOS" or so, too?

Yeah.

Also, the messages do not need to shout i suspect - the '!!' can be removed as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-04 17:48 [PATCH 1/1] x86, apic: Make "broken BIOS!!" messages unique John Villalovos
2011-02-04 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-04 22:00   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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