Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state

H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-06T23:38:20Z

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Please, no. system_state should be deprecated; its hard enough to have
> a notion of some kind of system-wide state, but putting subsystem
> specific substates into it just makes things worse.
>

Does it? It seems to me to have a bunch of state variables which can
interact in $DEITY knows how many ways sounds like a bad idea.

-hpa