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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 3/5] x86_64: fixed-size remaining fake nodes
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:36:59 +0100
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On Thursday 25 January 2007 22:37, David Rientjes wrote:
> Any leftover memory is allocated
> to a final node unless the command-line ends with a comma.

That sounds like syntactical vinegar and a nasty trap. Remember 
that venus probe that got lost because of a wrong comma.
Can you find some nicer syntax for that please? 

Also it's pretty complex. Are there use cases for all of this? 

-Andi