Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:34:01 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

No, that's the whole point.  If each subsystem adds its own
subsystem-private state then the subsystems *won't* interact.

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