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Subject: Re: #cpus property
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:48:54 +0100
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On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 13:11 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:33:05AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > Anyone know the origin of the #cpus property that seems to be in most 
> > > of
> > > the DTS files.  It seems to be documented nowhere.
> > 
> > It was there in the first DTS file to hit the kernel
> > source tree.  Probably all others just copied that.
> 
> That sounds likely.  We should probably get rid of it, the kernel
> doesn't use it.  BenH, Paulus, you can't see any use for this one?

Nope.

Ben.