linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Disable UV BAU by default

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1603231812500.3978@nanos>
Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:20:26 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Disable UV BAU by default

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> This was actually what I initially wrote, but we decided to go with the
> on/off switch instead, because, in the UV4 time-frame, we're hoping to
> get a few things changed so that we can default to having the bau *on*
> for the new UV4 systems.
> 
> I left that detail out of the original commit message, as I didn't
> figure our future (still tentative) plans were all that important to the
> community.  I can add that information to my commit message, if you
> would prefer to see it there.

Yes please.

Please make that parameter boolean type, so you can just use strtobool(). 

That supports "uvbau==[yYnN01]" and you can avoid the custom parser.

Thanks,

	tglx