linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] move arch_init_ideal

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Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:59:03 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, tglx@...utronix.de,
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	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] move arch_init_ideal_nop5 later

On 10/27/2010 07:11 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:24 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> The exception test is broken anyway for reasons I already explained, so it would be better to just drop it.
> 
> Would you be OK if we nuke it for the next merge window? It's been in
> there since 2.6.28, I'd hate to drop it now to discover that it breaks
> something this late in the merge window.
> 

I'd be much happier nuking it now than moving the invocation.  The
latter is much more likely to break things.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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