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

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Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:11:28 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	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


* Youquan Song <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> > Firstly, please use the customary (multi-line) comment 
> > style:
> > 
> >   /*
> >    * Comment .....
> >    * ...... goes here.
> >    */
> > 
> > specified in Documentation/CodingStyle.
> > 
> > Secondly, please send a patch against a vanilla (e.g. 
> > v3.11-rc5) kernel, as I've already zapped your previous 
> > patch from tip:x86/apic per your request.
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> latest vanilla has no includes the patch yet, so I think it
>  will be fine by only dropping it from tip tree.

I know that it's not included yet - because I have not sent 
it to Linus.

My suggestion was to document the circumstances here via a 
single patch, i.e. not a patch + revert-and-add-comments 
patch, but via a simple add-comments patch. Agreed?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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