linux-kernel - Re: not needed patch

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:29:06 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: not needed patch


* Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM> wrote:

> Ingo.
> 
> commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9 is not needed. another 
> patch (by you !! commit 699d934d5f958d7944d195c03c334f28cc0b3669 x86: 
> fixup cpu_info array conversion) already removed clearing of 
> c->cpu_index. in identify_cpu
> also it is not consisent to smpboot_32.c. (it will assign id to 
> cpu_index right after
>
>  	*c = boot_cpu_data;
> )

well, it might in the worst-case be a superfluous change, but not cause 
any problems in 2.6.24, right?

> by revert commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9, we could 
> use c->cpu_index in identify_cpu.

but that's 2.6.25 stuff, right? Travis?

	Ingo
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