linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm 3/5] x86_64: fixed-size remaining fake nodes

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Message-Id: <200701291436.59930.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:36:59 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...washington.edu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 3/5] x86_64: fixed-size remaining fake nodes

On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:37, David Rientjes wrote:
> Any leftover memory is allocated
> to a final node unless the command-line ends with a comma.

That sounds like syntactical vinegar and a nasty trap. Remember 
that venus probe that got lost because of a wrong comma.
Can you find some nicer syntax for that please? 

Also it's pretty complex. Are there use cases for all of this? 

-Andi
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