Re: [PATCH 06/20] early_res: seperate common memmap func frome820.c to fw_memmap.c

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 21:57 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > You use that arguemnt ONE MORE FUCKING TIME and you'll end up in my killfile 
> > with a auto-NACK reply of anything that looks like a patch from you.
> 
> Does this mean you disagree with that? (I think it's pretty factual, last i 
> checked the usage stats of devel kernels was somewhere around 99.7%.)

I disagree with that being a relevant argument in the technical
discussion on the relative merits of two implementations of a given
facility. I also disagree with your numbers, if you talk about
deployement, I would be very very surprised if ARM wasn't close to
on-par with x86.

> In any case, i dont dispute that LMB is a bit cleaner than kernel/early_res.c 
> - and both are much cleaner than the new e820 kernel/fw_memmap.c code posted 
> here by Yinghai.
> 
> If you dont disagree then please spare me the insults. (or move me into your 
> killfile) 

Well, I find some of your arguments quite insulting too, but let's move
on.

Cheers,
Ben.


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