Re: [PATCH 0/2] Clean up CP0 hwrena code in traps.c

Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:31:37 +0100

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:57:59PM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> There is an ugly #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON in the middle of
> traps.c.  We can get rid of it if we add a cpu feature for
> implementation dependent hwrena bits.  The first patch adds the
> feature macro and the second removes the #ifdef by setting the feature
> for Octeon.

I was wondering if maybe this should be a per-CPU thing but then again
hitting such a highly assymetric system is unlikely even in the embedded
world.

Thanks, queued for 2.6.31,

  Ralf