linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: coretemp: use list instead of fixed size array for temp data

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Message-ID: <55A95942.4060605@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:36:34 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	"Odzioba, Lukasz" <lukasz.odzioba@...el.com>
CC:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, lm-sensors@...sensors.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: coretemp: use list instead of fixed size array
 for temp data

Hi Jean,

On 07/17/2015 12:11 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:

>
> We could just drop NUM_REAL_CORES and use CONFIG_NR_CPUS instead, I
> would be fine with that. This lets people worried about memory
> consumption control it.
>
Unfortunately this won't work because the CPU ID is non-linear;
an 8-core system may have a CPI ID larger than 7.

Guenter

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