From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754363Ab1LUXvB (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:51:01 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38808 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754332Ab1LUXu7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:50:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4EF270CC.9040908@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:36 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kay Sievers CC: Greg KH , Thomas Renninger , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , axboe@kernel.dk, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, ying.huang@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/8] CPU: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPU_AUTOPROBE and X86 parts References: <1324338394-4670-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1324338394-4670-9-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <201112211602.26845.trenn@suse.de> <20111221232934.GC23559@kroah.com> <4EF26D63.10006@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/21/2011 03:46 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 00:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 12/21/2011 03:29 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>>> Greg, Andi's upcoming CPU modaliases are temporarily hooked into the >>>> 'cpuid' class devices to make them work with userspace, which isn't >>>> possible with the weird sysdev stuff. >>>> >>>> We don't want to depend on the 'cpuid' class, but hook into the real >>>> 'cpu' subsystem. This switches them over after we have the >>>> sysdev-cpu-conversion stuff merged. >>> >>> Ok, but what does this mean now for my tree as I've taken your patches? >> >> If I understand Kay right it means that once this tree and the patches from >> Kay are both upstream we can apply the cleanup patch. >> >> Kay, is that correct? > > Correct. > > Andi added the modalias stuff to the 'cpuid' class because that has > the proper userspace hookup. But we want to have the modalias at the > real 'cpu' devices. > > Thomas' patch (the above) moves them over, now that we can do that > with the weird sysdev stuff gone. > But we need Greg's stuff upstream first, right? So the sequence becomes a) merge Greg's tree b) merge this tree c) merge the cleanup. -hpa