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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] Add default CPU topology information
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:51:33 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > > This patch:
> > >
> > > - Adds default definitions of the 4 topology macros to
> > > include/asm-generic/topology.h.
> > > - Changes include/asm-*/topology.h to include <asm-generic/topology.h>
> > > unconditionally.
> > > - Changes drivers/base/topology.c to use the topology macros unconditionally
> > > and to cope with definitions that aren't lvalues.
> > > - Updates documentation accordingly.
> > >
> >
> > I ran away in terror when I saw this patch. It's dark and dirty stuff
> > you're unearthing there and it looks like a minefield of compilation
> > problems. Not aided by the fact that we don't have a topology
> > maintainer afaik.
> >
> > We shall see.
>
> i could pick it up into sched.git

There seem to be multiple sched.gits

> - it's a frequent party to topology
> patches. We've now got automated cross-build checks as well by virtue of
> Thomas so common build failures ought to be rare.

OK, whatever. There's a tangle between this change and the s390 tree which
already has a tangle with one of the sched-gits which is sort-of getting
sorted out.

git-s390 wasn't an appropriate place to host changes to
drivers/base/topology.c.



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