Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] ACPI: add in a bad_madt_entry() function to eventually replace the macro

[Al Stone]

On 08/26/2015 09:38 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Al Stone <al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +                               pr_err("Variable length MADT subtable %d is wrong size: %d\n",
>> +                                      entry->type, entry->length);
>> +                               return 1;
>> +                       }
>> +               }
>> +       } else {
>> +               if (entry->length != len) {
>> +                       pr_err("MADT subtable %d is wrong size: %d\n",
>> +                              len, entry->type);
> 
> Can we make these a little more descriptive?
> 
> pr_err("Variable length MADT subtable type %d is wrong size: %d,
> should be %d\n",
>       entry->type, entry->length, len);
> 
> pr_err("MADT subtable type %d is wrong size: %d, should be %d\n",
>       entry->type, entry->length, len);
> 

Sure.  It's always a fine line between verbose and not enough info.

-- 
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx
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