Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>   
> > Impact: cleanup
> >
> > extend after_bootmem and after_init_bootmem to bootmem_state
> > and will have BEFORE_BOOTMEM, DURING_BOOTMEM, AFTER_BOOTMEM
> >
> >     
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to add these as system_state enumerations
> and use relational comparisons on them (< <= >= >)?

Please, no.  system_state should be deprecated; its hard enough to have 
a notion of some kind of system-wide state, but putting subsystem 
specific substates into it just makes things worse.

   J
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