linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/platform/uv: Add is_early_uv

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810021622550.12704@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:23:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
        Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/platform/uv: Add is_early_uv_system check

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Mike Travis wrote:
> On 10/1/2018 11:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Mike Travis wrote:
> > 
> > > Introduce is_early_uv_system() which uses efi.uv_systab to decide early
> > > in the boot process whether we're on a UV system.
> > > 
> > > This is needed to skip other early setup/init code that might break UV
> > > platform if done too early such as before necessary ACPI tables parsing
> > > takes place.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche@....com>
> > 
> > This SOB chain is wrong. I don't see how Hedi is involved in this. If this
> > wants to express that the patch was developed together please see
> > Documentation for the Co-developed-by tag.
> 
> Hedi suggested a "Suggested-by:" tag, would that suffice?

Sure, instead of the SOB. 

Thanks,

	tglx