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Message-ID: <851fc09e0906180100n27c0a80ej1fb12a5cabac21b0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:00:37 +0800
From: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>
To: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/16] x86, mce: squash mce_intel.c into therm_throt.c
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Hidetoshi
Seto<seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> huang ying wrote:
>> 2009/6/15 Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>:
>>> move intel_init_thermal() into therm_throt.c
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/Makefile | 2 +-
>>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c | 73 ------------------------------
>>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>>> delete mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
>>
>> Why we need this patch? I think the design principle behind MCE is to
>> separate vendor/cpu specific code into different files. At least
>> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL should be used around moved code.
>
> Because at this time there are no vendor other than Intel that uses
> thermal codes here. I don't know much about AMD, whether there are
> any plan to implement AMD specific thermal codes or not, and why they
> have to make such specific thing here in future (patent?).
>
> You can pull out "codes may not be shared" from therm_throt.c and
> put it again into mce_intel.c (that was mce_intel_64.c). But I
> believe it is not needed now, until another code is available.
> Or you can rename therm_throt.c to thermal_intel.c or so for a while.
I think thermal_intel.c is better.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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