Re: 2.6.17-rc3 -- SMP alternatives: switching to UP code

[Rene Herman]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> Rene Herman wrote:

> > Should I be seeing this "SMP alternatives" thing on a !CONFIG_SMP
> > kernel? It does say 0k, but something is apparently being done at
> > runtime still. Why?
>
> The UP kernel has empty alternatives tables (as you've noticed), thus
> the code doesn't do anything.  Nevertheless it probably makes sense to
> add a few #ifdef CONFIG_SMP lines to avoid confusing people and safe a
> few bytes ...

Okay, thanks. Yes, I agree such would make sense.

Rene.


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