linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU

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Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:29:34 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, ying.huang@...el.com, lenb@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE and X86 parts

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:32:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 2011/12/21 Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>:
> 
> Cool. That sounds good. Nice work. Thanks.
> 
> Adding Greg, so he's in the loop.
> 
> Greg, Andi's upcoming CPU modaliases are temporarily hooked into the
> 'cpuid' class devices to make them work with userspace, which isn't
> possible with the weird sysdev stuff.
> 
> We don't want to depend on the 'cpuid' class, but hook into the real
> 'cpu' subsystem. This switches them over after we have the
> sysdev-cpu-conversion stuff merged.

Ok, but what does this mean now for my tree as I've taken your patches?

confused,

greg k-h
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