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Date:	Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:59:28 +0200
From:	"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	hpa <hpa@...or.com>, tglx <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Before:
>> total: 91 errors, 73 warnings, 2850 lines checked
>>
>> After:
>> total: 1 errors, 47 warnings, 2848 lines checked
>
> applied, thanks. A small detail:

Thank you. Did you manage to look/apply the other two patches as well?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/7/64
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/7/62

The latter might suffer for the same problem you fixed with the below patch.

>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
>> @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
>>  #include <linux/kthread.h>
>>  #include <linux/jiffies.h>   /* time_after() */
>>
>> -#include <asm/io.h>
>> -#include <asm/smp.h>
>> +#include <linux/io.h>
>> +#include <linux/smp.h>
>
> i suspect checkpatch suggested that asm/smp.h -> linux/smp.h change, but
> there was a subtle detail here - asm/smp.h has dual role on x86, it also
> carries a fair number of low level details about APIC/SMP details -
> which matters on UP IOAPIC.

You are right.
Sorry for not catching that.

BTW, I'm a bit lost in all the branches you are managing in the tip tree :-)
Which one should I look at to notice when the patches are applied?

Thanks.

Regards,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
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