linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow a hyphenated range in get

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Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:52:55 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Derek Fults <dfults@....com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow a hyphenated range in get_options

Derek Fults wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:11 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:16 -0600 Derek Fults wrote:
>>
>>> This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
>>> to command line helper function, get_options.    
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@....com>  
>> Hi,
>> Needs justification (why?) and a user.
>>
> 
> Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
> list of cpus.  
> Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
> This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a
> large system.  Valid values of  <cpu_number>  include all cpus, 0 to
> "number of CPUs in system - 1".

Yep, makes sense.  Just need to say so in the patch description
and supply a user of the code.

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy
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