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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 21/21] arm64: KVM: Remove weak attributes
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On 02/12/15 11:47, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:50:15PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> As we've now switched to the new world switch implementation,
>> remove the weak attributes, as nobody is supposed to override
>> it anymore.
> 
> Why not remove the aliases and change the callers?

This is likely to be a bigger patch, and it would affect the 32bit as
well. So far, I'm choosing to keep things the same. Another solution
would be to completely drop the aliases, and just rename the new
function to have the old names.

I don't mind either way.

	M.
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