Re: [patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 16:59:46 EST




On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> the cpu-hotplug related warning is solved by the cleanup below.

I do not believe this is a cleanup, at least not in this kind of form:

> @@ -1777,8 +1775,8 @@ xfs_icsb_init_counters(
> #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> mp->m_icsb_notifier.notifier_call = xfs_icsb_cpu_notify;
> mp->m_icsb_notifier.priority = 0;
> - register_hotcpu_notifier(&mp->m_icsb_notifier);
> #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
> + register_hotcpu_notifier(&mp->m_icsb_notifier);

That's just horrible. Now you "register" that notifier that you've never
actually even initialized.

The new code is a lot worse than the old code at least in this case.

Linus
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