Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Only print warning when desc_size is smallerthan defined one.

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:22:25AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> 1. bootloader aka grub.efi will convert efi memmap to e820 memmap and pass it in boot params.
>    and current grub.efi does not compare desc_size and struct size.

So we'll already have crashed and burned before we got here, and so this 
check will never fire. I sent a patch to just remove the message on the 
28th of March.

There's no way someody could ship a system with a desc_size that's 
smaller than sizeof(memdesc). It wouldn't boot anything.

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