From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/24] make vsmp a paravirt client
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:09:41 +0100
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> If vsmp is selected, PARAVIRT will be too, and the interrupt code will
> be patched.
> the vsmp option triggers a select statement.
> 
> the ifdef only exists because, as I said, the code itself will be always
> compiled in, to avoid an ifdef in setup_64.c. So it's just a taking it
> from here, putting it there issue.

Peeking around needlessly in pci config space at each boot just to avoid an 
ifdef is not an good idea.

-Andi


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