linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce x86

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Message-ID: <20080720072102.GC32168@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:21:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce x86_ops


* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c         |    9 +-------
>  arch/x86/kernel/mpparse.c      |   17 ++++------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c        |    4 +++
>  arch/x86/kernel/visws_quirks.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c  |   24 +++++++----------------
>  include/asm-x86/setup.h        |   18 ++++++++++-------
>  6 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

> +extern struct x86_ops *x86_ops;

great cleanup!

one detail: i've renamed x86_ops to x86_quirks (and propagated the 
rename into your subseqent patches as well), because this is really 
something that is not used by normal hardware.

	Ingo
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