linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 v2 07/25] staging: lustre: libcfs: replace num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu

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Message-ID: <20180601083140.GC19242@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Jun 2018 10:31:40 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
        Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 v2 07/25] staging: lustre: libcfs: replace
 num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21:47AM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> From: Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@...el.com>
> 
> Move from num_possible_cpus() to nr_cpu_ids.

This says what you did, not _why_ you did it.  If these functions are
really identical, why do we have both of them?  :)

greg k-h