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ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:09:29 +0000 (16:09 +0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:06:46 +0000 (18:06 -0400)
commit3a94a1401b4506cc6209ac5f34390139e80f5a33
tree1c2d24c8e5812cd21f56679fa57165693c2fb7da
parent2c39c2e0b2d8414cfd8b9067ed1c3aac4ed303c1
ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default

EINJ parameter support is only usable for some specific BIOS.
Originally, it is expected to have no harm for BIOS does not support
it.  But now, we found it will cause issue (memory overwriting) for
some BIOS.  So param support is disabled by default and only enabled
when newly added module parameter named "param_extension" is
explicitly specified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c