RE: [PATCH] deal with lack of acpi prt entries gracefully

[Brown, Len]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbarnes@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:05 PM
> To: Andrew de Quincey
> Cc: Grover, Andrew; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] deal with lack of acpi prt entries gracefully
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:00:30PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > > None of the above.  We have our own NUMAlink based 
> interrupt protocol
> > > model.
> > 
> > Oooer! Hmm, the existing code would probably NOT like 
> having _PRT entries for 
> > a model it doesn't know about.... you could add support for 
> it fairly easily 
> > though I suppose...
> 
> Yeah, that's what Andy suggested too.  I guess I have to use 
> one of the
> reserved fields and try to get the ACPI spec updated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jesse

Even if this exotic box shouldn't be running this flavor of the code,
the inifinite loop part struck me as less than bomb proof;-)
So I pulled the return on count==0 check into the ACPI patch.

Thanks,
-Len
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