linux-kernel - Re: not needed patch

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Message-ID: <20071220163352.GA6930@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:33:52 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: not needed patch


* Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:

> >> by revert commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9, we could 
> >> use c->cpu_index in identify_cpu.
> > 
> > but that's 2.6.25 stuff, right? Travis?
> > 
> 
> Looking at this more closely, yes my change is not needed and should 
> be removed.  I'm not sure what caused my cpu # to be all zeros when I 
> was testing, but it now works ok without my change.

how about this question:

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

	Ingo
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