Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:10:40 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT
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* Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote:

>  config MTRR
>  	bool "MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support"
> -	depends on !PAT
> +	depends on !X86_PAT
>  	---help---
>  	  On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later)
>  	  the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control

thanks. But, i think we should rather do the following: if X86_PAT is 
eanbled then /proc/mtrr should be read-only. There's no problem 
_looking_ at MTRR contents, as long as we do not try to modify them. Hm?

	Ingo
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