Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:06:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert x86: add lapic_shutdown for x86_64 |
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:39:46 -0700 > > Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> wrote: > > > >> lapic_shutdown is useless on x86_64. > >> > > > > .... but since the goal is to get apic_32.c and apic_64.c to be more > > converging (to the point of becoming the same file)... isn't your patch > > going in the opposite direction? > > > Hmm, I'm not sure that this revert affects x86 unification. > Vivek said that probably we don't have to introduce lapic_shutdown() for 64bit. > So I submitted this patch which reverts my previous post, it was applied before > the comment.
Don't worry, we sort this out. There is some inevitable friction loss for now, but we are getting closer. I gave the apic code some care to get a readable diff out of it. Result is in:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git cleanup
Thanks,
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