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Message-ID: <86802c440809301659h4ff57a32r28e62b32386752e9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:59:49 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: mtrr_cleanup update command line

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>> Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>
>>> E.g., the "apic" entries are not grouped together and these mtrr entries
>>> should
>>> not be grouped together unless they all begin with "mtrr", which is an
>>> option here:
>>> they could be renamed to "mtrr-cleanup" and "mtrr-nocleanup".
>>> And "disable_mtrr_trim" could be renamed to "mtrr-notrim".
>>>
>>
>> That does collide with the (not always kept) convention of prefixing "no" to
>> disable a boolean option, though.
>>
>
> it seems should group them and then provide one index section...
>
or
1. put all description in .c files
2. have one scripts to search early_param and __setup and create that
kernel_parameter...

YH
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