Re: [PATCH 27/35] core: move early_res

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On 02/16/2010 03:53 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> All this does would seem is it would change a build failure into a
>> runtime panic.  I really fail to see how this is an improvement...
> 
> current only x86 support to early_res replace bootmem.
> 
> later if other arch is using that feature, it need to provide that get_max_mapped.
> 

If so, it would be better if this code isn't compiled at all on
platforms that doesn't use it.  Masking a compile-time failure with a
runtime failure when the code isn't actually used doesn't seem like the
right thing.

	-hpa

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