From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756340AbZCFXiU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:38:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753320AbZCFXiI (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:38:08 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34871 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752983AbZCFXiH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:38:07 -0500 Message-ID: <49B1B2E9.5050507@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:34:01 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Yinghai Lu , mingo@elte.hu, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Pekka Enberg , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state References: <> <1236257708-27269-7-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> <49B02498.9080300@kernel.org> <49B02C68.1030203@cs.helsinki.fi> <49B0640A.5080607@kernel.org> <49B0BF46.4080405@zytor.com> <49B19FB4.40909@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <49B19FB4.40909@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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