Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
Well, you could describe it as "now-useless", since it looks like you've got another rev coming anyway? Cheers, Rusty. -- 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/
