linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 16/32] x86: Replace ARCH

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908220139390.1769@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:42:29 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 team <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Pan Jacob jun <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 16/32] x86: Replace ARCH_SETUP by a proper platform
 function

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> On 08/21/09 14:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > ARCH_SETUP is a horrible hack of paravirt/xen which is way nicer to
> > read as a platform setup function.
> >   
> 
> Not really correct; its a left-over from the old subarch stuff.  But it
> was certainly never very pretty.

Oops. Sorry, I squeezed the history out of my brain and my
subconscious mind attributed it to paravirt/xen :)

Will fix the comment.

Thanks,

	tglx
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