Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:38:08 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] of: Create asm-generic/of.h and provide default of_node_to_nid() | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:51:01 -0600
> Indeed. I looked at it briefly, but it wasn't immediately clear what > the impact would be to switch powerpc over to -1, and it looked to me > like sparc depends on -1 to signify no node association.
Kernel wide, NUMA interfaces tend to take "-1" to mean "any node."
I had looked over the powerpc cases, and besides 1 or 2 strange locations the powerpc call sites were ready to handle -1.
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