* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Do we know whether a distro adds this to the boot line? Do we know about users > > relying on it. > > I certainly had hardware that needed it. Don't any more but this is more > trying to rip out stuff without letting nature take its course. > > It's a trivial feature item. Yes. > > > Do we really need both? > > > > Probably not, as i said i do not disagree - i just think it should be more > > explicit. Make it a: "users of CPU models X beware" commit title, not 'remove > > inactive code' ... > > Just make the one config variable respond to both boot configuration > options. The parser is __init code anyway so discarded so the actual code > cost of compatibility is exactly NIL. Yeah, agreed. Btw., we used to auto-detect broken HLT systems IIRC - but that got lost already. We should at least honor the boot parameter. Thanks, Ingo _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
