linux-kernel - Re: [patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu

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Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use



On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> yeah - this could only be done cleanly if there was a 'set notifier 
> parameters and register it' call, but there isnt. Find below the patch 
> with this bit taken out. (and with the mce_amd.c fix merged in). It 
> still removes ~25 #ifdef blocks total.

Ok, looks better, although I just don't feel comfy merging this at this 
point, since it looks unlikely to fix any real bugs.

Will happily take it post-2.6.19 as a cleanup, though.

		Linus
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