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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: processor: only call _PDC on physically present
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A couple reasons to not get excited about this solution.

I don't like the processor enumeration code moving to a file called 
processor_pdc.c.

Too big for rc4 -- a logical revert to evaluate PDC when
we did in 2.6.32 would be more attractive at this point.


thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center