Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
And yes, if you want the capability following to notice automatically when
capabilities really do go into the 0x100+ range, that's fine. I suspect
Yes, we /must/ do this checking, if we don't already.
Hell no. If the user asked for mmconfig to be disabled, it needs to be
disabled, because it may well be broken and non-working. It's better to
not see some capabilities than to lock up the machine.
I think my short response created confusion. I was only saying that we
should check for capability overruns, if we don't already[1].
I wasn't saying anything about mmconfig in that sentence, sorry.
Let's pop this sub-thread off the stack, and jump to your "Sounds like a
plan?" train of thought.
Jeff
[1] Lioc's response seems to imply my worry about overruns is unfounded.
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