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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment

* Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote:

> It's not obvious to everybody that BP stands for boot processor. At
> least it was not for me.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- linux-4.14-rc1.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2017-09-17 00:47:51.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-4.14-rc1/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2017-09-19 14:28:30.553830299 +0200
> @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>
> /*
> * VMware detection requires dmi to be available, so this
> - * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the BP.
> + * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the boot processor.
> */
> init_hypervisor_platform();

Ok, I agree with this change - but there's a couple of other references to 'BP' in
the x86 code, if then we should change all of them over to 'boot CPU'.

Also, while at it, please change 'dmi_scan_machine' to 'dmi_scan_machine()', which
is the canonical way to refer to function calls.

Thanks,

Ingo

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