Re: IBM Thinkpad A21 BIOS - EDD information wrong

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 12:36:18 EST


On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:46:05PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > /sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/raw_data
> > Hm, I thought you were going to use the sysfs binary file interface for
> > this file, instead of outputing a hex dump.  Any reason for keeping it
> > this way?
>
> Laziness? No really, it just slipped my mind. I've got the read-disk-sig
> patch I'm working on related to EDD again, so I'll fix it right soon.
> Would that fit under Linus's 'bug-only' policy?

I would say yes, as it's a bug that the current code is implementing a
hex dump in kernel space :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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