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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:21:54 +0000
Subject: Re: Build warning for unused function in the file,sm7xxfb.c
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To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org, Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
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On 27/02/2015 16:14, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>>> I don't understand the change either, I suggest asking the kvmm 
>>> developer who accepted it.
> Hi Paolo, We have a small confusion about commit
> bab5bb398273bb37547a185f7b344b37c700d0b9. It looks like the patch
> removed a call to function kvm_make_request() and introduced a new
> function kvm_set_pending_timer() which is just calling
> kvm_make_request() again. and the commit message just says "Adds a
> function kvm_vcpu_set_pending_timer instead of calling
> kvm_make_request in lapic.c.".

It's just a cosmetic change; and yes, I know who the author is.

Paolo