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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:08:05 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
       eranian@hpl.hp.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Simplify smp_call_function*() by using common
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> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:12:55 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Subject: Simplify smp_call_function*() by using common implementation
> 
> smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single are almost complete
> duplicates of the same logic.  This patch combines them by
> implementing them in terms of the more general
> smp_call_function_mask().

Hopeless, sorry.   It's probably time to start thinking about raising x86
patches against the x86 tree (at least).