Re: [PATCH] re-export genapic on i386

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 10:50:37 EST


On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:47:34PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get
> line wrapped.)
>
> A change not too long ago made i386's genapic symbol no longer be
> exported,
> and thus certain low-level functions no longer be usable. Since
> close-to-
> the-hardware code may still be modular, this rectifies the situation.

Again, what code would use it, why and why can't it use a proper accessor.
And a shitty thousands of lines out ot tree debugger ported from Novell's
legacy OS is not the answer, btw.

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