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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:16:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH: 001/012] Memory hotplug for new nodes v.2. (pgdat allocation)
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To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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On Friday 17 February 2006 16:39, Dave Hansen wrote:

> I'm a teensy bit concerned that this doesn't share enough code with the
> boot-time initialization.  For instance, the kthread_create() seems to
> be a pretty darn generic piece.  I'd feel a lot more at ease if this
> patch did something with _existing_ code instead of just adding.

Agreed. Having significantly different code paths for hot add and
for normal initialization isn't a good idea. It will just lead to 
long term code drift and problems.

So i would suggest to generalize the standard functions enough
to make them callable from a hotplug layer.

-Andi