Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Use buffer with 32-bit physical address

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Calls to communicate with system firmware via a SMI (using dcdbas) need
> to use a buffer that has a physical address of 4GB or less.  Currently
> the dell-laptop driver does not guarantee this, and when the buffer
> address is higher than 4GB, the address is truncated to 32 bits and the
> SMI handler writes to the wrong memory address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@xxxxxxxx>

It looks like you've got a printk in there that should be dropped, but 
if you resubmit without that then feel free to add

Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>

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