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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpu hotplug ppc64 bug
I think that function pointers are a good idea too.  But I'm not sure 
why that should hold up this patch. As it stands now all ppc64
platforms that do hotplug happen to be pSeries. I don't know of any
other ppc64 platforms that are not pSeries who plan on doing this in the
next few years. The function is already pSeries specific anyway with
the rtas_stop_self call.

Meanwhile if we do not put this patch in all Power5 machines will be
unable to do cpu hotplug with a mainline kernel.



> I wanted to do this a bit differently - I was going to make cpu_die be
> a platform-specific function called via a ppc_md function pointer,
> rather than putting very pseries-specific stuff in smp.c, which is
> used on all platforms. But having been on vacation and then
> travelling, I haven't got to it yet.
>
> Paul.
>
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