Re: [PATCH 1/6] Uml - reuse i386 cpu-specific tuning

From: Blaisorblade
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 04:16:24 EST


On Wednesday 26 October 2005 09:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > arch/i386/Kconfig | 304
> > ------------------------------------------------ arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu |
> > 305 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Have mercy. I currently have twelve patches which alter arch/i386/Kconfig
> and this patch conflicts with most of them. This shouldn't come as a
> surprise - Kconfig files are oft-patched, and this is x86.

Yep - if we get no objection with this, I could pull any changes in -mm and
merge the patch directly Linuswards at some point, since it has so many
conflicts.

So, you can probably leave what you have there.
> What I did was to simply copy the large block between

> if !X86_ELAN
>
> and
>
> config X86_OOSTORE
>
> over into Kconfig.cpu, taking the modifications with it.

I also took X86_TSC with me, in my patch.

> As long as that's also what you did things should work OK. If you actually
> made any changes as you did the copy-and-paste, we're screwed.

No, I didn't do real changes - I just added a couple of comments. However yes,
should have splitout in copy+paste and changes

+# Put here option for CPU selection and depending optimization
[...]
and the comment near "endif" to say what is it closing:
+#!X86_ELAN

--
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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