Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751257AbWCFRlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:41:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751380AbWCFRlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:41:52 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:25313 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbWCFRlv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:41:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:41:22 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Jones , Michael Ellerman , "Darrick J. Wong" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris McDermott Subject: Re: [PATCH] leave APIC code inactive by default on i386 Message-ID: <20060306174122.GA2716@elf.ucw.cz> References: <43D03AF0.3040703@us.ibm.com> <20060301043353.GJ28434@redhat.com> <20060306125018.GA1673@elf.ucw.cz> <20060306171747.GN21445@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060306171747.GN21445@redhat.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 24 > > Is adding "noapic nolapic" to default command line a big problem? > > For end-users, yes. People want things to 'just work', not have > to find arcane commands to type in to make things work. If distro puts "noapic nolapic" on kernel command line, I'd say users are unlikely to remove it.. And if they do remove it and it breaks, they'll only blame themselves... One more config-option is also not "cheap" (half of users will get it wrong), and having config-option to change command-line-default seems wrong to me. [Well, you could add CONFIG_CMDLINE to i386, like arm has... that solves more than just this problem...] Pavel -- Web maintainer for suspend.sf.net (www.sf.net/projects/suspend) wanted... - 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/