From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:37:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170919143750.246159e4@endymion> (raw)
It's not obvious to everybody that BP stands for boot processor. At
least it was not for me.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-4.14-rc1.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2017-09-17 00:47:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.14-rc1/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2017-09-19 14:28:30.553830299 +0200
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
/*
* VMware detection requires dmi to be available, so this
- * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the BP.
+ * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the boot processor.
*/
init_hypervisor_platform();
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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2017-09-19 12:37 Jean Delvare [this message]
2017-09-28 7:41 ` [PATCH] x86/setup: Clarify a comment Ingo Molnar
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