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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 09/33] Add start-of-day setup hooks to subarc

To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 09/33] Add start-of-day setup hooks to subarch
From: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:07:18 -0700
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> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:00 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (i386-setup)
> > Implement the start-of-day subarchitecture setup hooks for booting on
> > Xen. Add subarch macros for determining loader type and initrd
> > location.
> 
> > diff -r a5848bce3730 arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c      Thu Jun 22 16:02:54 2006 -0400
> > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c      Thu Jun 22 20:20:31 2006 -0400
> > @@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ static void __init print_memory_map(char
> >     }
> >  }
> >  
> > +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_E820_SANITIZE
> >  /*
> >   * Sanitize the BIOS e820 map.
> >   *
> > @@ -677,6 +678,7 @@ int __init copy_e820_map(struct e820entr
> >     } while (biosmap++,--nr_map);
> >     return 0;
> >  }
> > +#endif
> >  
> Hi,
> 
> what is this for? Isn't this 1) undocumented and 2) unclear and 3)
> ugly ? (I'm pretty sure the HAVE_ARCH_* stuff is highly deprecated for
> new things nowadays)

I've read that Linus doesn't like it (putting it mildly),
but deprecated??  Yes, there are better/other ways.

---
~Randy

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