On Sun, Sep 27 2015, Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > But to be clear, it has outlived its usefulness, but it was not useless. > > In particular, there used to be a debug config where 'struct cpumask' > wasn't defined, so we could catch people declaring 'struct cpumask' on > the stack (or passing by value). > > There was a plan to remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS (ie. having no compile-time > cpu limit), but it seemed overkill and was abandoned. But avoiding > 'struct cpumask' (not struct cpumask *) in the core wherever possible > was a step towards it. > > Hope that clarifies,
It does, thanks! Should some of that be edited into one of the changelogs? Rasmus -- 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/
