From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:18:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20050128151839.GI6703@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050128133927.GC6703@wotan.suse.de> <20050128143010.GE6703@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org > Forgive me for not wading through the code, but it really needs to > be spelt out in the comments: what's wrong with the existing kernel, > with "noapic nolapic" in the distro's bootstring by default? It's harder to explain and traditionally in LILO you couldn't remove any options (in grub you can now). I think it makes much more sense to have an positive option for this too, not a negative one. Also I must add my patch fixes real bugs in the code, not just adding the new option. > I'm not going to be the only one confused by this! I think there is much more confusion in the current way. -Andi