Re: [Patch v4 04/16] ACPI: Rename processor_core.c as apic_id.c

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 22:33:18 EST


Hi Rafael and Hanjun,
Thanks for your review. I will keep the original file name
in next version.
Regards!
Gerry

On 2014/9/9 5:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, September 08, 2014 08:51:31 PM Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> Hi Gerry, Rafael,
>>
>> On 2014å09æ08æ 06:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:22:29 AM Jiang Liu wrote:
>>>> Now all code in processor_core.c is APIC ID related, so rename it as
>>>> apic_id.c. Later IOAPIC ID related code will be added into apic_id.c.
>>> Actually, I'm not sure about this one.
>>>
>>> Renames like this make it difficult to backport things in general
>>> and kind of break "git blame", so do we have to do that?
>>>
>>> What's wrong with leaving the name as is and adding a comment
>>> about the contents being related to IOAPIC ID?
>>
>> It will be thankful for not renaming the file into apic_id.c, because apic id is x86 specific,
>> and platform like ARM will also add some code to get cpu hardware id via GICC structure
>> in MADT table in that file, apic id is not a generic name for both x86 and ARM, I prefer to
>> keep it as it is :)
>
> Well, that's a good argument too.
>
> Rafael
>
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