linux-kernel - Re: [patch, -rc6] x86

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Message-Id: <200611161109.37172.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:09:37 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100
> > > Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> > > >  	hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0);
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > this part isn't needed - the definition handles that.
> > 
> > Thanks. Updated patch appended.
> 
> my hotplug-CPU cleanup patch solves this in a cleaner way: by removing 
> all those #ifdefs as well.

Fine, but I suspect that late in the release it's better to go 
for minimal "obvious" fixes. Later it can then be cleaned up properly.

-Andi
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