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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	jaswinder@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] x86: perf_counter cleanup
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:05:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090308210521.GA17491@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B432A4.7010807@zytor.com>


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 15:52 +0000, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> >> Commit-ID:  e255357764f92afcafafbd4879b222b8c752065a
> >> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e255357764f92afcafafbd4879b222b8c752065a
> >> Author:     "Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <jaswinder@kernel.org>
> >> AuthorDate: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:09:49 +0530
> >> Commit:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> >> CommitDate: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:26:50 +0100
> >>
> >> x86: perf_counter cleanup
> >>
> >> Remove unused variables and duplicate header file.
> > 
> > Why did you commit this?
> > 
> > Until someone from AMD steps up and either tells us they're 
> > going to be 48bits _ALWAYS_ or that it's impossible to 
> > detect dynamically, I'd rather try and get the dynamic thing 
> > working.
> 
> That would be good, but there really is absolutely no reason 
> to leave in variables which are unused in the current code and 
> therefore give a gcc warning.  It's not like adding new 
> declaration is hard.

yeah. Adding a TODO there might be worth doing though.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-08 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-e255357764f92afcafafbd4879b222b8c752065a@git.kernel.org>
2009-03-08 20:59 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] x86: perf_counter cleanup Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-08 21:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-08 21:05     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-08 10:34 [git-pull -tip] x86:perf_counter cleanup Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-08 15:52 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] x86: perf_counter cleanup Peter Zijlstra

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