linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/intel.c cleanup

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Date:	Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:35:03 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/intel.c cleanup

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 18:04 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 16:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I don't really like this change (last hunk). Doesn't it seem a 
> > > > bit pointless? It breaks the symmetry with the masked CPUID 
> > > > levels at the beginning of the function. If somebody wants to 
> > > > add something else to this function, it might have to be 
> > > > reindented again. Or is there a problem with too long lines 
> > > > here?
> > > 
> > > yes, it would be cleaner to put the whole family 15 branch into 
> > > a helper inline function instead.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, better I keep it unchanged :-)
> 
> Why not implement the cleanup i suggested?

I followed your approached and made new helper function. But the result
was same, in that helper function I have to check for family 15 and rest
of things. So I found nothing was gained, So I again reverted it and
provided you this patch.

Thanks,
--
JSR

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