Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:According to Tejun the problem is just cosmetic (i.e. causes build warnings), since the functions affected aren't being used (yet) on ia64. So feel free to drop the patch again, given that he has a patch queued to address the issue by renaming the arch variable.I thought the new code must be used in order for the new percpu allocator to work? Or is this referring to other code?I wonder though why that code is being built on ia64 at all if it's not being used (i.e. why it doesn't depend on a CONFIG_*, HAVE_*, or NEED_* manifest constant).Tony: Can you confirm that the new percpu stuff works on IA64? (Or is there nobody left to care?)
Christoph, I have access to a 640p system for a couple more weeks if there's anything you'd like me to check out. Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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