Re: linux-next: Tree for Sep 19 (x86/kernel/cpuinfo.c)

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:40:00AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On 09/19/17 08:54, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > On 09/18/17 21:15, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> Changes since 20170918:
> > > >>
> > > >> Linus' tree still had its build failure for which I reverted a commit.
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > on i386:
> > > > 
> > > > ../arch/x86/kernel/cpuinfo.c: In function 'cpuinfo_flags':
> > 
> > Where does this file come from? Random driver code added to arch/x86? This
> > was neither acked nor reviewed by any x86 maintainer and just slapped into
> > arch/x86/kernel/ without spending a split second of brain to find the spot
> > where it actually belongs. It's not rocket science to figure that out.
> 
> It is arch specific, cpu specific to be specific :)
> 
> Where would you have this file go instead?

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/

That's where all the CPU related stuff including the proc/cpuinfo code
lives. It's not rocket science to figure that out.

> And these patches were posted many times, Felix, you did cc: the arch
> maintainers, right?  I don't have access to my archives at the moment...

I have the following mails related to this in my direct inbox archive,
i.e. where I was CC'ed and exactly the same amount in my full LKML archive:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170614150410.GA15806@xxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802160420.GA18507@xxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802164621.43ckgv2vieudvifc@angmar
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802174725.GB2333@xxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/59824864020000EE001C9890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828152906.GA2810@xxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828153642.GA29792@xxxxxxxxx
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170906134531.GB11779@xxxxxxxxx

All of these mails were completely out of context, i.e. the stuff was never
posted to LKML at all. I got them because you added x86@xxxxxxxxxx when
replying.

And all what I could see from your replies was:

>  arch/Kconfig                                       |  3 ++
>  drivers/base/Makefile                              |  1 +
>  drivers/base/cpuinfo.c                             | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/cpuhotplug.h                         |  1 +
>  include/linux/cpuinfo.h                            | 43 +++++++++++++++++++

which I blissfully ignored.

Thanks,

	tglx