From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:44:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:44:30 -0400 Received: from as4-1-7.has.s.bonet.se ([217.215.31.238]:40619 "EHLO k-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA8AEFB.4090205@stesmi.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:43:07 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Liakakis Kostas CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon bug stomper. Pls apply. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. >>If this should be an optional fix, it should be default enabled, and then >>all those who don't want to use the fix, should disable it. But I guess, as >>long as it's an option, someone is _bound_ to come naging with their >>problems... >> > > How can you know you need it if it is enabled by default. I see many more > ppl just not being bothered enough to check. How many cpus did you try on your machine ? Are you 100% sure the fix isn't needed on your machine? > And then, would you prefer having somebody naging about, say, his > northbirdge melting down after 10mins with K7 optimizations enabled? Sure, I can see the mail already: "My Northbridge melted. It's never done that before". // Stefan