linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/28] x86: Add support to determine the E820 type of an address

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Date:   Fri, 3 Mar 2017 10:52:23 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/28] x86: Add support to determine the E820 type
 of an address

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:34:39PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Or if we want to guard against ACPI adding a type 0 in the future, I
> could make the function return an int and then return -EINVAL if an e820
> entry isn't found.  This might be the better option.

Yap, think so too. I don't trust specs anyway :)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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