linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [DMAR] Fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:31:25 -0500
From:	Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>
To:	7eggert@....de
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DMAR] Fix endless "Unknown DMAR structure type" loop

Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> (copying relevant people)
>>
>> Tony Battersby wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> +                            "Invalid 0-length structure\n");
>>>       
>
> This line is everything the reader of your message will see, (unless it happens
> not to be the first ACPI error). I would not be able to tell the cause without
> grepping the kernel source.
>
>
>   

Well, there is a PREFIX of "DMAR:" in the message too.  And I do not
think it is any less informative than any of the other error messages in
the same function, e.g. "Invalid DMAR haw", or "Unknown DMAR structure
type".

Tony
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