Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: don't enable cpu hotplug on mpic-based pseries

[Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:52:04PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Olof Johansson writes:
> 
> > Don't allow cpu hotplug on systems lacking XICS interrupt controller,
> > since current code is hardcoded for it.
> ...
> > +	for (np = NULL; (np = of_find_node_by_name(np,
> > +						   "interrupt-controller"));) {
> 
> Looks like for_each_node_by_name would be nicer here.
> 
> If you agree, I'll hand-edit your patch to do that and apply it.

Go for it, I just stole that out of the detection code. That
could be changed accordingly as well at some point (I'm guessing
for_each_node_by_name didn't exist when that was written).

> Of course, ultimately we should implement the necessary mpic bits to
> support cpu hotplug.

Yep. I'll leave that to people who have hardware access. :-)


Thanks,

-Olof
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