From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: colpatch@us.ibm.com
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Martin Bligh <mjbligh@us.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] xquad_portio cleanup
Date: 02 Oct 2002 01:43:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033519383.20103.36.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9A173B.1010205@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:44, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> > STANDALONE seems to be a very namespace-polluting choice of define.
> > MULTIQUAD_STANDALONE, MQ_STANDALONE... anything would be better imo.
>
> The #define is most definitely *not* NUMA/Multiquad specific. In this
> particular instance, it is guarding Multiquad specific code... The
> STANDALONE option (please clarify if I'm wrong, Alan) is for code that
> is compiled along with the kernel, with the kernel headers, etc, but is
> not acually part of the kernel proper.
Indeed
Its set by the boot loader code that wants to also use inb/outb etc but
not get the kernel magic wonders of numa-q and other evil abuses of PC
iomapping
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 23:34 [patch][rfc] xquad_portio cleanup Matthew Dobson
2002-10-01 15:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-01 21:44 ` Matthew Dobson
2002-10-02 0:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-10-02 18:16 ` [patch][rfc] xquad_portio cleanup 2.5.40 Matthew Dobson
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