Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mike Travis wrote:
> 
> About the return 0, it was the default return for another error case.
> Should the function panic because it can't read a cpu reg?  That seems
> wrong too.
> 

The only other error case I see is when the value simply is zero by
definition.  This is a memory allocation failure, which is quite a bit
different -- the former is that the query *can't* be answered, the
latter that the query *won't* be answered...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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