linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/hyperv: Remove aliases with X64 in their name

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Date:   Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:01:56 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     joseph.salisbury@...rosoft.com
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/hyperv: Remove aliases with X64 in their name

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 07:26:26AM -0700, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> From: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...rosoft.com>
> 
> In the architecture independent version of hyperv-tlfs.h, commit c55a844f46f958b
> removed the "X64" in the symbol names so they would make sense for both x86 and
> ARM64.  That commit added aliases with the "X64" in the x86 version of hyperv-tlfs.h 
> so that existing x86 code would continue to compile.
> 
> As a cleanup, update the x86 code to use the symbols without the "X64", then remove 
> the aliases.  There's no functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...rosoft.com>

Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks.

Wei.