Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

Andi Kleen
2007-12-22T02:40:59Z

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:22:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >Ok, that's a different argument than before. Ok. Although it's
> >only a few bytes.
> >
> >I would lobby for any message at least contain the suggestion to try
> >edd=off. That could save users a lot of time.
>
> The important thing is that there is a message before and after. The
> rest can be dealt with by Google on in documentation. That's what the

That means every user needs to waste at least 5 minutes to google/read
docs and be annoyed by someone's ads. Collective waste.

Just adding "Try edd=off if this hangs" is ~23 bytes and adding
that should be hardly a problem even in your 32k. Or perhaps if you're more
worried about code size than grammer "edd=off when hang" @)

-Andi