Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_NR_CPUS, redux

[Martin J. Bligh]

> Ugh let's stop this thread now.  Two points:
> 
> 	(a) imo, the kernel should support out-of-the-box the maximum
> 	    number of CPUs it can handle.  Be lucky we now have a
> 	    configure option to change that.  But that does not matter..
> 
> 	(b) Right now it is 32.  Now you can change it... if you want
> 	    to change the current behavior by _default_ why don't we
> 	    suggest that _after_ this is accepted into 2.5?  I.e., one
> 	    battle at a time.

Indeed. And before that gets changed, it would be necessary
to change the bootstrap procedure not to crash if you have
more than NR_CPUS cpus (as Andrew reported it did), but instead 
to just not configure them ... much less troublesome.

M.