Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:12:04 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > >> Impact: cleanup >> >> extend after_bootmem and after_init_bootmem to bootmem_state >> and will have BEFORE_BOOTMEM, DURING_BOOTMEM, AFTER_BOOTMEM >> >> > > Wouldn't it make more sense to add these as system_state enumerations > and use relational comparisons on them (< <= >= >)?
Please, no. system_state should be deprecated; its hard enough to have a notion of some kind of system-wide state, but putting subsystem specific substates into it just makes things worse.
J
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