Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Have x86_64 use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:17:59 +0200

> Well, it creates arch-neutral common code, teaches various architectures
> use it.  It's the sort of thing we do all the time.
> 
> These things are opportunities to eliminate crufty arch code which few
> people understand and replace them with new, clean common code which lots
> of people understand.  That's not a bad thing to be doing.

I'm not fundamentally against that, but so far it seems to just generate lots of 
new bugs?  I'm not sure it's really worth the pain.

-Andi