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

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Message-ID: <20160323172516.GG205791@stormcage.americas.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:25:16 -0500
From:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>, 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, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:20:26PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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.

Got it.  Will do.

> Please make that parameter boolean type, so you can just use strtobool(). 
> 
> That supports "uvbau==[yYnN01]" and you can avoid the custom parser.

Makes sense. I'll get that taken care of.

Thanks again!

- Alex