linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: let 32bit use apic

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Message-ID: <86802c440807121845u3a51b239h95fa46cfb6f7c770@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:45:04 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Suresh Siddha" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: let 32bit use apic_ops too

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...ux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> -void apic_wait_icr_idle(void)
>> +void xapic_wait_icr_idle(void)
>>  {
>>       while (apic_read(APIC_ICR) & APIC_ICR_BUSY)
>>               cpu_relax();
>>  }
>>
>> -u32 safe_apic_wait_icr_idle(void)
>> +u32 safe_xapic_wait_icr_idle(void)
>
>  Etc...  Why are you changing names of these functions?  Are they meant
> not to apply to older APIC implementations anymore?

because 64bit has that name.

YH
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