Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch][rfc] xquad_portio cleanup | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 02 Oct 2002 01:43:03 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:44, Matthew Dobson wrote: > > STANDALONE seems to be a very namespace-polluting choice of define. > > MULTIQUAD_STANDALONE, MQ_STANDALONE... anything would be better imo. > > The #define is most definitely *not* NUMA/Multiquad specific. In this > particular instance, it is guarding Multiquad specific code... The > STANDALONE option (please clarify if I'm wrong, Alan) is for code that > is compiled along with the kernel, with the kernel headers, etc, but is > not acually part of the kernel proper.
Indeed
Its set by the boot loader code that wants to also use inb/outb etc but not get the kernel magic wonders of numa-q and other evil abuses of PC iomapping
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