Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752587Ab0BIUbr (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:31:47 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57523 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874Ab0BIUbq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:31:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:30:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linus Torvalds , Jesse Barnes , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab Message-Id: <20100209123037.733fee7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1265743966-17065-16-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> References: <1265743966-17065-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1265743966-17065-16-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 684 Lines: 22 On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:26 -0800 Yinghai Lu wrote: > +config NO_BOOTMEM > + default y > + bool "Disable Bootmem code" > + depends on X86_64 > + ---help--- > + use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready. > + s/use/Use/ It would help if the help was a bit more helpful than this. It provides no indication why one would want to enable this option, nor what the effects of doing so might be. -- 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/