On 02/16/2010 04:01 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. I would like to. but for x86, with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM set or not, early_res are all used. so we add CONFIG_HAVE_EARLY_RES ? Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
