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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: relax signature check
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:16:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475EC5E5.80104@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J27Or-00012X-DF@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Not BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3.", 6) != 0); ?
> I don't thin Xen version 32 will be compatible ...
>   

It had better be; if it loads the kernel, it should present a xen-3
compatible ABI.

But this is just a sanity check to make sure things are basically OK;
BUG_ON is hardly nice error reporting (not that there's much else we can
do at that point).

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9yY38-5oa-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-12-11 15:52 ` [PATCH] xen: relax signature check Bodo Eggert
2007-12-11 17:16   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-12-12 19:14     ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-12 19:36       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-12-10 21:00 Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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