Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		Dave Airlie <airlied-AT-gmail.com>
Subject:		Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box
Date:		Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
Cc:		Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-elte.hu>, James Morris <jmorris-AT-namei.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-AT-zytor.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai-AT-kernel.org>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, airlied-AT-linux.ie, Thomas Gleixner <tglx-AT-linutronix.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg-AT-cs.helsinki.fi>
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> A default y config option causing regressions still at rc3? and you guys
> keep going? This is the sort of shit Linus would flame me for a day or two for,
> 
> Can we get some f'ing consistency here?

Yeah. I think we need to remove the crap.

I thought the problems were known, and fixed in -rc3. Clearly they 
weren't. And by now it's not about changing the default any more - by now 
it's about removing the known-crap code.

		Linus

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