Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261446AbVA1PSt (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:18:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261451AbVA1PSt (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:18:49 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:35801 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261446AbVA1PSo (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:18:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:18:39 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_X86_APIC_OFF for i386/UP Message-ID: <20050128151839.GI6703@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050128133927.GC6703@wotan.suse.de> <20050128143010.GE6703@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 21 > Forgive me for not wading through the code, but it really needs to > be spelt out in the comments: what's wrong with the existing kernel, > with "noapic nolapic" in the distro's bootstring by default? It's harder to explain and traditionally in LILO you couldn't remove any options (in grub you can now). I think it makes much more sense to have an positive option for this too, not a negative one. Also I must add my patch fixes real bugs in the code, not just adding the new option. > I'm not going to be the only one confused by this! I think there is much more confusion in the current way. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/