From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cleanup e820_setup_gap Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:32:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20080620153220.GD17373@elte.hu> References: <1213916250.27983.35.camel@promb-2n-dhcp368.eng.vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:48044 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757039AbYFTPcf (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1213916250.27983.35.camel@promb-2n-dhcp368.eng.vmware.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alok Kataria Cc: "Brown, Len" , Andrew Morton , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Yinghai Lu * Alok Kataria wrote: > This is a preparatory patch for the next patch in series. Moves some > code from e820_setup_gap to a new function e820_search_gap. This > function will be used by the next patch in the series. > > Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria > > Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c 2008-06-12 10:42:22.000000000 -0700 > +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/e820_64.c 2008-06-13 14:05:18.000000000 -0700 > @@ -872,26 +872,20 @@ note that this code has significantly changed in x86-next (it has been fixed, extended, cleaned up and unified). You can find the latest patches in tip/master at: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README tip/master contains the integration of all changes in this area. We could apply and test your change in tip/x86 as well, as it seems standalone and independent of ACPI - so that when the acpi change shows up in linux-next there's a e820_search_gap() function available. Ingo