Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762982AbXLON1E (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:27:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754262AbXLON0x (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:26:53 -0500 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.6]:20010 "EHLO smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753713AbXLON0w (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:26:52 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:26:38 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andi Kleen , Avi Kivity , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, glommer@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, ehabkost@redhat.com, jeremy@goop.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, chrisw@sous-sol.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, hpa@zytor.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] unify paravirt parts of system.h Message-ID: <20071215132638.GA28231@basil.nowhere.org> References: <11967843881946-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11967843943958-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11967843983411-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11967844032081-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <11967844071346-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> <4755A809.4050305@qumranet.com> <20071204193432.GI11764@bingen.suse.de> <20071205163017.GA4756@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071205163017.GA4756@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2007 13:20:40.0079 (UTC) FILETIME=[498F51F0:01C83F1D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 13 > It probably is safe to remove... but we currently support '2.8.95 > kernel loads/resumes 2.6.24 image'... which would break if 2.8 uses > cr8. No it won't. 2.8 would just restore some random useless value. If 2.8 wants to use CR8 it would have to re-initialize it -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/