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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
hpa@zytor.com, pure.logic@nexus-software.ie, jgross@suse.com,
luto@amacapital.net, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, JBeulich@suse.com,
bp@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 2/2] x86: kconfig: remove UP [IO]APIC options
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:58:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1503101756460.26407@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1426029275-9594-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
>
> These were here mostly to help as wrappers for PCI_MSI
> under certain UP 32-bit build scenarios, now that PCI_MSI
> properly selects what it needs and when it needs it these
> Kconfig options are now only enabling users reduce the size
> of 32-bit kernels optionally. Since 32-bit kernels are not
> in a huge state of flux and since there is no penalty for
> adding APIC support other than a bit of size moving forward
> we simply expect folks to enable APIC options on 32-bit systems
> when a system needs it, as with PCI_MSI. This lets us remove
> clutter from the x86 Kconfig file.
>
Check out Linus's latest tree at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git and see
how it looks after commit 50849eefea3b ("x86/Kconfig: Simplify X86_UP_APIC
handling") and commit b1da1e715d4f ("x86/Kconfig: Simplify X86_IO_APIC
dependencies").
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-11 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-10 23:14 [RFC v1 0/2] x86: kconfig: simplify APIC entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-03-10 23:14 ` [RFC v1 1/2] x86: kconfig: simplify enabling [IO]APIC for PCI_MSI Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-03-11 0:49 ` David Rientjes
2015-03-11 23:03 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-03-10 23:14 ` [RFC v1 2/2] x86: kconfig: remove UP [IO]APIC options Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-03-11 0:58 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2015-03-11 18:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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