Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:59 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 08:58:53 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:58 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

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When did this change from "considered an internal implementation
issue, and not really an interface" to "all new interfaces"?

Interesting blurb... that's not everybody's opinion and I would argue
that supporting AMP kernels isn't something we want to do with closed
source crap.

I'm not advocating "closed source crap", just that if something is
"policy" (as opposed to opinion), it'd be nice if the documentation
actually matched.

Well, in Linux, the line between opinion and policy is quite blurred.

I don't know for sure what Linus himself thinks here and various other
maintainers have expressed various opinions as well. As far as I'm
concerned, I don't see the point in encouraging binary junk, especially
for low level interfaces like this one.

Cheers,
Ben.