From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:18:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050128151839.GI6703@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501281506100.7207@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-28 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-28 13:39 [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 14:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 15:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 15:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-01-28 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-28 15:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 17:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-28 17:43 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-01-28 17:46 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 18:30 ` Hugh Dickins
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