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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Allow a hyphenated range in get_options
Derek Fults wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:11 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:25:16 -0600 Derek Fults wrote:
>>
>>> This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
>>> to command line helper function, get_options.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>
>> Hi,
>> Needs justification (why?) and a user.
>>
>
> Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
> list of cpus.
> Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
> This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a
> large system. Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to
> "number of CPUs in system - 1".

Yep, makes sense. Just need to say so in the patch description
and supply a user of the code.

Thanks,
--
~Randy
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