[PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes
Andi Kleen
ak at suse.de
Sun May 21 08:17:59 EST 2006
> Well, it creates arch-neutral common code, teaches various architectures
> use it. It's the sort of thing we do all the time.
>
> These things are opportunities to eliminate crufty arch code which few
> people understand and replace them with new, clean common code which lots
> of people understand. That's not a bad thing to be doing.
I'm not fundamentally against that, but so far it seems to just generate lots of
new bugs? I'm not sure it's really worth the pain.
-Andi
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