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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:32:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324063231.GA26302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150323172144.649316225@asylum.americas.sgi.com>


* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> Fix a bug in the oem check function that determines if the system
> is a UV system and the BIOS is compatible with the kernel's UV apic
> driver.  This prevents some possibly obscure panics and guards the
> system against being started on SGI hardware that does not have the
> required kernel support. [...]

This would be one patch ...

> [...]  Also add update for new UV3000 system.

... and that's a second patch.

> The first "OEM" check was also optimized to return faster if the
> system is not an SGI or UV system.

Looks like this mixes up with the fix and can be part of the first 
patch - although ideally it would have been good to create a 3 patch 
series to preserve the separation of the various changes.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20150323172142.904806569@asylum.americas.sgi.com>
2015-03-23 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/1] X86, UV: Update UV APIC driver check Mike Travis
2015-03-24  6:32   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-03-24 19:57     ` Mike Travis

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