Re: [patch][rfc] xquad_portio cleanup

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
02 Oct 2002 01:43:03 +0100


On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 22:44, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> > STANDALONE seems to be a very namespace-polluting choice of define.
> > MULTIQUAD_STANDALONE, MQ_STANDALONE... anything would be better imo.
>
> The #define is most definitely *not* NUMA/Multiquad specific. In this
> particular instance, it is guarding Multiquad specific code... The
> STANDALONE option (please clarify if I'm wrong, Alan) is for code that
> is compiled along with the kernel, with the kernel headers, etc, but is
> not acually part of the kernel proper.

Indeed

Its set by the boot loader code that wants to also use inb/outb etc but
not get the kernel magic wonders of numa-q and other evil abuses of PC
iomapping

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