linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup

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Message-Id: <20080402123655.2e316352.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:36:55 -0500
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	ying.huang@...el.com, andi@...stfloor.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct
 setup_data

hpa wrote:
> It is usually handy to have an ID to use as ignore, or not present, and 
> for that to be zero.

Sometimes handy - if needed for specific reasons.

But many enumerations (enum or #define constants) in
the kernel have no such NONE/ignore/not-present value.

What's the use here?  I see no use for it.

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