On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Forgive me for not wading through the code, but it really needs to > > > be spelt out in the comments: what's wrong with the existing kernel, > > > with "noapic nolapic" in the distro's bootstring by default? > > > > It's harder to explain and traditionally in LILO you couldn't remove > > any options (in grub you can now). I think it makes much more sense > > to have an positive option for this too, not a negative one. > > Well new distributions with 2.6 most probably aren't using LILO and if > you're running 2.6 with some ancient distro you can add commandline > options yourself.
Ok, thanks for the constructive feedback. I withdraw the patch then and will continue to maintain it in private. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
