Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE and X86 parts |
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On 12/21/2011 03:46 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 00:36, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: >> On 12/21/2011 03:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>>> Greg, Andi's upcoming CPU modaliases are temporarily hooked into the >>>> 'cpuid' class devices to make them work with userspace, which isn't >>>> possible with the weird sysdev stuff. >>>> >>>> We don't want to depend on the 'cpuid' class, but hook into the real >>>> 'cpu' subsystem. This switches them over after we have the >>>> sysdev-cpu-conversion stuff merged. >>> >>> Ok, but what does this mean now for my tree as I've taken your patches? >> >> If I understand Kay right it means that once this tree and the patches from >> Kay are both upstream we can apply the cleanup patch. >> >> Kay, is that correct? > > Correct. > > Andi added the modalias stuff to the 'cpuid' class because that has > the proper userspace hookup. But we want to have the modalias at the > real 'cpu' devices. > > Thomas' patch (the above) moves them over, now that we can do that > with the weird sysdev stuff gone. >
But we need Greg's stuff upstream first, right? So the sequence becomes a) merge Greg's tree b) merge this tree c) merge the cleanup.
-hpa
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