From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] cleanup: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern	declaration
 from smpboot.c
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:16:44 -0800
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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> When I implemented the DECLARE_PER_CPU(var) macros, I was careful that
> people couldn't use "var" in a non-percpu context, by prepending
> percpu__.  I never considered that this would allow them to overload
> the same name for a per-cpu and a non-percpu variable.
>
> It is only one of many horrors in the i386 boot code, but let's rename
> the non-perpcu cpu_gdt_descr to early_gdt_descr (not boot_gdt_descr,
> that's something else...)
>   

Finally, someone not just noticed, but fixed it!  Thank you Rusty.  Was 
on my todo list, but never bubbled up.

Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>