Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: mpparse cleanup

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 04:24:07 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As I told you earlier, I cannot check this on my side. Only
> > > > suspect will be check_irq_src() please test this patch if this
> > > > does not work I will revert check_irq_src():
> > >
> > > no need to test on your side. If a patch is broken the first step is
> > > to take a look at the patch and think about it. For example this
> > > block:
> > >
> >
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86: mpparse introduced few helper functions
> >
> > Introduced helper functions:
> > skip_entry, smp_reserve_bootmem, check_irq_src and check_slot
>
> And to make review and testing simpler can we please have separate
> patches for those helper functions as far as it is possible.

yes - that's definitely a good idea for the future. I'll give the
fix another chance in testing - if it fails again we have to
risk-reduce by doing more splitups.

Ingo
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