2008-07-30 19:58:41

by Dimitri Sivanich

Subject: [PATCH] x86: Remove EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU

This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU on the x86 architecture.

One question, should we default to 'Y'?

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <[email protected]>

Index: linux/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-07-30 14:45:16.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/arch/x86/Kconfig 2008-07-30 14:47:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -1365,11 +1365,11 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.

config HOTPLUG_CPU
- bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER
+ bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs"
+ depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && !X86_VOYAGER
---help---
- Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to
- enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through
+ Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on, and to enable
+ suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through
/sys/devices/system/cpu.
Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to
suspend.

2008-08-04 17:55:23

by Max Krasnyansky

Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU

Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU on the x86 architecture.
Looks good to me.

> One question, should we default to 'Y'?
That I'm not sure. I'd personally be ok if the default was 'Y'.

Max