Re: [patch-2.5.24] microcode tidy-up + observation

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:56:07 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Observation: I noticed that all smp_num_cpus in the driver have been
> replaced by NR_CPUS. I assume this was done for the CPU hotplug support,
> although if smp_num_cpus reflects the "current" number of online cpus, I
> think, the driver would have worked as is and avoided wasting 64k-epsilon
> of memory.

Ok, I can see now that smp_num_cpus doesn't exist anymore on i386 but is
still there on other architectures.

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