linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu

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Date:	Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:44:47 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>,
	Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> checkpatch tends to be used for firs patch submissions and
> adding it would only encourage a new wave of trivial whitespace
> patches.

Nope, we definitely don't want that...

> I think there are already way, _way_ too many existing instances
> of comments that are of the form
> 	/* foo
> 	 * ...
> to add that.
> 
> There are 10s of thousands outside of net/ and drivers/net/.

... unless there's a way to detect new submissions and scream only
for those. I.e., look at lines starting with "+" which don't have
corresponding "-" lines.

This would need a bit of experimenting and is not trivial though, maybe
Algorithm::Diff could even help there.

Sounds like a mini-project for a perl dude :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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