From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: ying.huang@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:36:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080402123655.2e316352.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F3B6B6.9010802@zytor.com>
hpa wrote:
> It is usually handy to have an ID to use as ignore, or not present, and
> for that to be zero.
Sometimes handy - if needed for specific reasons.
But many enumerations (enum or #define constants) in
the kernel have no such NONE/ignore/not-present value.
What's the use here? I see no use for it.
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.940.382.4214
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-02 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 2:49 [PATCH 2/4] x86_64 boot -v2: Add linked list of struct setup_data Huang, Ying
2008-03-30 4:25 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-30 4:31 ` Paul Jackson
2008-03-31 0:54 ` Huang, Ying
2008-04-02 7:39 ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-02 16:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-02 17:36 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-03-30 8:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-31 0:52 ` Huang, Ying
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