From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758635AbZA2WTi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:19:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752487AbZA2WT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:19:29 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:35100 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752274AbZA2WT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:19:29 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tim Pepper , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: x86: unify genapic code, unify subarchitectures, remove old subarchitecture code In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:02 +0100." <20090129221402.GA1984@elte.hu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1233186180-29883-1-git-send-email-mingo@elte.hu> <87vdryw6ql.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090129221402.GA1984@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1233267557_3419P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:19:17 -0500 Message-ID: <7477.1233267557@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1233267557_3419P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:14:02 +0100, Ingo Molnar said: > So two days ago it might have made some sense to rip out this code - now > there's no pressing need really. We can remove it in a few years once the > last beep has been received from those platforms. The numaq code is now > quite similar to an old driver in drivers/* - there's no real downside > from having it around. Eventually, somebody will end up submitting a patch that adds the almost inevitable 'depends on BROKEN' to the appropriate Kconfig... --==_Exmh_1233267557_3419P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFJgitlcC3lWbTT17ARAhrEAJ9yWyUNZEZOpuatw/x6AhJcrKaqogCg301Y dAugc1+pXdkTYnmS9hDyKBI= =gqwx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1233267557_3419P--