linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809122313440.13819@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:19:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> writes:
> >
> > to see how wrong could be set by BIOS.
> 
> Just dump it from user space then.  There are plenty of tools
> to access ACPI tables.

1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ?

2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel
   output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type
   whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output.

Nervertheless the changelog of the patch needs some useful information
why we actually need this information.

Thanks,

	tglx
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