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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: export genapic again
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:29:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051108132954.GQ3847@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4370AEE1.76F0.0078.0@novell.com>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> A change not too long ago made i386's genapic symbol no longer be
> exported, and thus certain low-level functions no longer be usable.
> Since close-to-the-hardware code may still be modular, this
> rectifies the situation.

We don't export symbols for "there might be some driver that might need 
this".

Can we discuss this issue when such a driver gets submitted for 
inclusion in the kernel?

> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> 
> (actual patch attached)

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-08 12:57 [PATCH] i386: export genapic again Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 13:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-08 13:22   ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 13:29 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-11-08 14:17   ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:52 ` [PATCH] i386: make trap information available to die handlers Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:59   ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-08 17:08     ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 17:13       ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-09  8:20         ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-10 12:21           ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-08 20:58       ` Richard Knutsson
2005-11-08 16:52 ` [PATCH] i386: int3 adjustment Jan Beulich
2005-11-09  8:37   ` [PATCH 1/2] i386: double fault adjustment - introduce THREAD_ORDER Jan Beulich
2005-11-09  8:38     ` [PATCH 2/2] i386: double fault adjustment Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:54 ` [PATCH] i386: NMI <-> debugging handler adjustments Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:55 ` [PATCH] i386: handle NMI case in IPI sending Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:55 ` [PATCH] i386: stand-alone CONFIG_PAE Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 17:02   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-08 17:10     ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 16:57 ` [PATCH] i386: adjust page fault handling Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 21:22 ` [PATCH] i386: export genapic again Randy.Dunlap
2005-11-09  8:18   ` Jan Beulich

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