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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Merge setup_32/64.c into setup.c
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>>> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> include/asm-x86/setup.h | 2
>>>>>> 5 files changed, 670 insertions(+), 934 deletions(-)
>>>>> very nice!
>>>>>
>>>>> could we please split this up into several, gradual steps that bring
>>>>> setup_32.c and setup_64.c to exactly the same content - where the final
>>>>> patch just renames arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c to arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>>>>> and deletes arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c ?
>>>> OK, someone (Mike Triavis) already stole setup.c for X86_NUMA.
>>>>
>>>> You need to change that setup.c to other name. or split it away...
>>> hm, that change was supposed to be the seed of a unification. So if it
>>> actually hinders you, feel free to move it to a different file.
>>> Obviously it is setup_32.c and setup_64.c that should be unified into
>>> setup.c.
>>
>> ok, I will change that setup_percpu.c
>>
>> YH
>
> One thing I was trying to do was to merge more stuff from setup_32/64 into
> setup.c. Unfortunately, there was some test failures on i386 that I did not
> have time to debug. But the file existed before my time. ;-)
>
> Why does the current setup.c need to be renamed and not simply add the merged
> changes into it?

Ingo want make setup_32.c have everything (in 10 patches), and then
rename setup_32.c to setup.c and delete setup_64.c

will move numa related to setup_numa.c or numa.c

YH


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