Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:25:16 -0500
From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Disable UV BAU by default
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:20:26PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> > This was actually what I initially wrote, but we decided to go with the
> > on/off switch instead, because, in the UV4 time-frame, we're hoping to
> > get a few things changed so that we can default to having the bau *on*
> > for the new UV4 systems.
> > 
> > I left that detail out of the original commit message, as I didn't
> > figure our future (still tentative) plans were all that important to the
> > community.  I can add that information to my commit message, if you
> > would prefer to see it there.
> 
> Yes please.

Got it.  Will do.

> Please make that parameter boolean type, so you can just use strtobool(). 
> 
> That supports "uvbau==[yYnN01]" and you can avoid the custom parser.

Makes sense. I'll get that taken care of.

Thanks again!

- Alex