Thanks for review. Agreed with you absolutely. Silly patch, sorry :(

On 2/3/08, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > This patch strips off 8 bytes from text section. Not a really
> > big advantage (especially for __init section). It seems 8192
> > bytes of disassembled code is rare used anyway.
> >
> > before:
> >     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >     9900     176      20   10096    2770 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o.old
> > after:
> >     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >     9892     176      20   10088    2768 arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.o
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ---
> >
> > If there is no benefit at all - just drop the patch.
> > Any comments are welcome ;)
>
> I don't think this is the behaviour we want (wrapping around); worse, if
> people enter a larger power of two they will get zero.
>
> So NAK on this patch, IMO.
>
>       -hpa
>
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