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SubjectRe: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.
Thomas Gleixner writes:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol.
>
> The macro was duplicated in -mm1.
> I sent a patch against -mm1
> The patch went upstream without the perfctr-ppc.patch, which contained
> the macro define in regs.h.
>
> So a bit of confusion came up

The sane thing to do is to split -mm's perfctr-ppc.patch so that
the new symbolic constants can go into -linus w/o having to drag
in the experimental perfctr stuff from -mm.

This wasn't an issue before because the -linus kernel didn't
acquire any use of PMXE until very recently.

/Mikael
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