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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:55:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 04/18] smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 01:05:45PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > +config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
> > +       bool
> > +
> 
> Symbols we select in arch Kconfig files are often named HAVE_*
> And no matter the name - a comment preceeding the definition of the symbol
> would be nice so it is possible to deduct the use of the symbol
> in a few years time when this thread is long forgotten.

Fair enough. Though I hope that this can go away, when we can convert
the 3 remaining archs over.

Thanks,

	tglx