linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Merge setup

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Message-ID: <48628501.6050203@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:48:49 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
CC:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Merge setup_32/64.c into setup.c

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Ingo want make setup_32.c have everything (in 10 patches), and then
> rename setup_32.c to setup.c and delete setup_64.c
> 
> will move numa related to setup_numa.c or numa.c
> 

FWIW, I personally would like to see initialization-only code moved out 
of arch/x86/kernel at some point.  Right now "kernel" is a catch-all, in 
particular, it mixes drivers, runtime core code, and initialization code.

	-hpa
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