linux-kernel - Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:09:49 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Voyager phys_cpu_present_map compile error

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:51:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > > thanks, the three patches below should fix it.
> > > 
> > > i ended up excluding Voyager configs from our test space some time 
> > > ago (and VISWS as well - there's one more visws fix in x86.git), 
> > > that's how this broke. These subarchitectures seem not to be used at 
> > > all and the code wont boot on normal PCs. We could mark it BROKEN 
> > > but the fix seems simple in any case.
> > 
> > The voyager pieces of this code look fine to me.  I can't test at the 
> > moment because we're having the carpets cleaned and I can't get down 
> > into the cellar where the systems are, but I'll do so shortly.
> 
> ok, that's good enough - that's why i excluded it from the auto-qa 
> test-space as well. Adrian, could you please remove it from your config 
> testset as well? If a user enables that config option it wont boot 
> anyway so it's not a problem in practice.

Who said that Voyager won't boot?

And I'm the first to remove non-working code, but as long as we 
ship it it should be in the best possible state.

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

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