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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] intel_cacheinfo: remove MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:06:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050920160604.5e022fa8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050919121435.A10231@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Remove the MAX_CACHE_LEAVES limit from the routine which calculates the
> number of cache levels using cpuid(4)

Why?  Why was the code there originally, and why is it required that it be
removed, and why is it safe to remove it?

(IOW: your description of this patch is inadequate: it describes what was
done, but not why it was done).

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-20 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-19 19:14 Siddha, Suresh B
2005-09-20 23:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-09-21  0:58   ` Siddha, Suresh B

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