linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

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Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:01:19 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Dieter Ries <clip2@....de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

Mike Travis wrote:
> 
> About the return 0, it was the default return for another error case.
> Should the function panic because it can't read a cpu reg?  That seems
> wrong too.
> 

The only other error case I see is when the value simply is zero by
definition.  This is a memory allocation failure, which is quite a bit
different -- the former is that the query *can't* be answered, the
latter that the query *won't* be answered...

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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