Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] deal with lack of acpi prt entries gracefully | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:22:59 -0400 | From | "Brown, Len" <> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbarnes@sgi.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:05 PM > To: Andrew de Quincey > Cc: Grover, Andrew; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] deal with lack of acpi prt entries gracefully > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:00:30PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > > > None of the above. We have our own NUMAlink based > interrupt protocol > > > model. > > > > Oooer! Hmm, the existing code would probably NOT like > having _PRT entries for > > a model it doesn't know about.... you could add support for > it fairly easily > > though I suppose... > > Yeah, that's what Andy suggested too. I guess I have to use > one of the > reserved fields and try to get the ACPI spec updated. > > Thanks, > Jesse
Even if this exotic box shouldn't be running this flavor of the code, the inifinite loop part struck me as less than bomb proof;-) So I pulled the return on count==0 check into the ACPI patch.
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