linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:37:50 +0200
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:     x86@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment

It's not obvious to everybody that BP stands for boot processor. At
least it was not for me.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-4.14-rc1.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c	2017-09-17 00:47:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.14-rc1/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c	2017-09-19 14:28:30.553830299 +0200
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 
 	/*
 	 * VMware detection requires dmi to be available, so this
-	 * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the BP.
+	 * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the boot processor.
 	 */
 	init_hypervisor_platform();
 

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support