On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 04:06:19PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > Hi Heiko, > > On 24/11/14 15:00, Heiko Carstens wrote: > >Hi there, > > > >I'm just wondering what the point of the current cpu cache info > >within drivers/base is? > >If I startup linux-next (as of today) all I get is an error message > >"error detecting cacheinfo..cpu0". > > That's correct, I did post a patch[1] to suppress that given not all > architectures might add support. > > >Which naturally comes from: > > > >int __weak init_cache_level(unsigned int cpu) > >{ > > return -ENOENT; > >} > > > >Given that there is no implementation without __weak I'm wondering > >what the point is? Also it looks like no architecture has been > >converted to the new infrastructure, even though such patches have > >been posted in the past? > > Yes, I asked Greg to hold off on the architecture patches for next > versions as there may be conflicts(though we can have solve it using > a common baseline, but I thought it was too late to try that). Also > I have not got testing on few other architectures(ppc, ia64, amd). I > will post those patches individually on respective arch lists and > chase after the v3.19-rc1 release. Is that OK ? Ok, thanks for clarifying! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html