linux-kernel - Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box

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Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, airlied@...ux.ie,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box



On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> A default y config option causing regressions still at rc3? and you guys
> keep going? This is the sort of shit Linus would flame me for a day or two for,
> 
> Can we get some f'ing consistency here?

Yeah. I think we need to remove the crap.

I thought the problems were known, and fixed in -rc3. Clearly they 
weren't. And by now it's not about changing the default any more - by now 
it's about removing the known-crap code.

		Linus
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