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Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:59:38 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c
 to fw_memmap.c

On 03/10/2010 03:46 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:24:26PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> move it to kernel/fw_memmap.c from arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |  130 -----
>>  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c      | 1142 --------------------------------------------
>>  include/linux/bootmem.h     |    2 
>>  include/linux/fw_memmap.h   |  114 ++++
>>  kernel/Makefile             |    2 
>>  kernel/fw_memmap.c          | 1134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Yuck.  So you think we should use > 1100 lines of fw_memmap.c code
> instead of the 541 lines of lib/lmb.c?  Why exactly would that be
> better?
> 

even worse

you should count
early_res + fw_memmap 

YH
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