Compared to a patch which removes 5 lines of code, almost any additional work is ocean-boiling.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Williams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 3:12 PM To: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: X86 ML <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Set up resources correctly on Hyper-V Generation 2 On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > *Until* such a mechanism is in, I see no reason to not keep feature parity > for all platforms. This is the exact "You should boil the ocean" response > that Arjan famously complained about at Kernel Summit a few years ago. Feature parity for all platforms is the NFIT which Hyper-V is already implementing. Setting that aside, if we want to fix memmap= for the general case, implementing a table like mBFT does not amount to ocean boiling in my opinion.
