Re: [ACPI] RFC: ACPI table overflow handling

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 7:45 am, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> I could just hack the NUMA srat_num_cpus handling code to have a limit
> as IMHO it is a lot cleaner to improve the acpi_table_parse_madt() API
> by adding a max_entries argument and then have acpi_table_parse_madt
> spit out a warning if it found too many entries.

I really like this idea.  I notice you didn't take the opportunity to
remove the ad hoc checking in ia64 acpi_parse_lsapic; probably that's
the next step.  Also, did you consider using max_entries==0 to signify
"unlimited"?  Zero seems like an otherwise useless value for max_entries
and would avoid having to choose an arbitrary limit.

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