On 01/15/2014 10:20 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
> (2014/01/16 14:53), H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/15/2014 08:44 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke wrote:
>>>
>>> This is not typo in my intention.
>>>
>>> generic_processor_info() has two more cases where it ignores cpus.
>>> In either cases, printed messages are tagged with "ACPI" because this
>>> function is called when parsing ACPI MADT table in acpi_boot_init();
>>> this function is also being used to parse other kind of tables but
>>> the "ACPI" tag would mean that the function was first for ACPI only.
>>>
>>
>> But it has nothing to do with ACPI -- it is an APIC ID from the command
>> line -- so that would be actively misleading.
>>
>> -hpa
>>
>
> I never disagree to the fix itself. I wanted to explain why I wrote so.
>
> I thought it was better to unify tags in the same function because they
> should bleong to the same component, here I mean ACPI, but it's better
> to avoid the confusion, which is bigger impact.
>
Indeed. All good now.
-hpa
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