From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moving F0 0F bug check to bugs.h
Date: 18 Nov 2001 17:46:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9t9o91$k6p$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111181540190.16977-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111181512230.29315-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111181512230.29315-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
By author: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason why the F0 0F bug check isn't in bugs.h?
>
> hpa moved it (And some others) during his 2.3.99 big cleanup of setup.c
> and friends.
>
bugs.h should die, ideally. There is no good reason the checking for
features and the checking for bugs is done using different mechanisms,
and the bugs.h mechanism is *MUCH* uglier. However, I was planning to
wait for 2.5 with that one.
-hpa
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-19 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-18 13:51 [PATCH] moving F0 0F bug check to bugs.h Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 14:18 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 14:37 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 14:50 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 15:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2001-11-18 15:30 ` Dave Jones
2001-11-18 15:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-18 18:14 ` George Greer
2001-11-19 1:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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