linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/8] x86: apic

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Message-ID: <20080815163537.GB7178@lenovo>
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:35:38 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	yhlu.kernel@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] x86: apic - unify init_bsp_APIC

[Maciej W. Rozycki - Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:31:57PM +0100]
| On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| 
| > Since lapic_is_integrated is just eliminated on 64bit I thought
| > it's better to have smooth code flow as much as possible. By 'smooth'
| > I mean to not use #ifdef until there is no chance to escape from.
| 
|  Of course!
| 
| > And Maciej - you're so right - if someone will take a look on the
| > apic_64.c code now he will be quite wondered what lapic_is_integrated
| > is doing in 64bit code.
| 
|  I just questioned the purpose of reformatting the comment.  I see no
| problem with lapic_is_integrated() appearing in 64-bit code -- if someone
| cannot figure out why it would appear there, they better practised some
| thinking at home before coming back.  We have plenty of places with such
| constructs that expand to literals for some configurations all over our
| tree anyway.
| 
|   Maciej
| 

Ah... it was about comment,  now it's clear what you meant (for me).

		- Cyrill -
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