linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: APIC: Remove apic_write

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:02:12 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: APIC: Remove apic_write_around(); use alternatives

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:

>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.o
> arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c:170: error: unknown field 'write_atomic'
> specified in initializer
> arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c:170: error: 'native_apic_mem_write_atomic'
> undeclared here (not in a function)
> arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c:209: error: unknown field 'write_atomic'
> specified in initializer
> arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c:209: warning: initialization from
> incompatible pointer type
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2

 Just remove the offending initialisers.  They are not needed anymore as
the .write method is now used universally including places where
.write_atomic was.  I just could not stand watching the thing
proliferate...

  Maciej
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