Re: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:03:50AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> From ae6cdc767f973f39cb205af4b80ff13f35a1b66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:37:08 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support
> >>
> >> x86 unconditionally uses NO_BOOTMEM so there is no use
> >> of the HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM support as mm/bootmem.c is the
> >> only file referencing this symbol.
> >>
> >> bootmem_arch_preferred_node() is the function referred
> >> in the mm/bootmem.c code and can thuis be dropped too.
> >>
> >> x86 was the sole user of HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM - so there is
> >> an opportunity to clean up a little in mm/bootmem.c too
> >> if we do not expect other users to emerge.
> >
> > avr32 seems to have it too?
> 
> avr32 is:
> 
> config HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
>         def_bool n
> 
> so that is not used with avr32

Yeah, then better remove the reference from there too, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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