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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:56:15 -0800
From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: not needed patch
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Ingo.
>>
>> commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9 is not needed. another 
>> patch (by you !! commit 699d934d5f958d7944d195c03c334f28cc0b3669 x86: 
>> fixup cpu_info array conversion) already removed clearing of 
>> c->cpu_index. in identify_cpu
>> also it is not consisent to smpboot_32.c. (it will assign id to 
>> cpu_index right after
>>
>>  	*c = boot_cpu_data;
>> )
> 
> well, it might in the worst-case be a superfluous change, but not cause 
> any problems in 2.6.24, right?
> 
>> by revert commit fbdcf18df73758b2e187ab94678b30cd5f6ff9f9, we could 
>> use c->cpu_index in identify_cpu.
> 
> but that's 2.6.25 stuff, right? Travis?

Since 6.5.24 needs to close soon, I'll queue up this change for 6.5.25.

Thanks everyone!

-Mike
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