linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch] return early if all dmar HW unit ignored

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Message-Id: <1249895639.4919.133.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:13:59 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Luming Yu <luming.yu@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch] return early if all dmar HW unit ignored

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 14:21 +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
> 
> But I don't know why I were seeing faults if all dmar units were
> ignored? Surely that shouldn't happen? Will double check and
> investigate.

It shouldn't happen -- I suspect that you didn't actually mark them
_all_ ignored? What happens if you modify my patch just to mark the
offending unit as ignored, but don't also apply your patch? Does it boot
then?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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