Re: [PATCH] i386: export genapic again

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 08.11.05 14:08:09 >>>
>On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:57 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> (actual patch attached)
>> 
>
>+#define APIC_DEFINITION 1
>
>what is that for?

For making the whole thing build: asm/smp.h and
asm/mach-generic/apicdef.h contain some constructs that result in build
failures when visible to some of the files that actually implement
(parts of) the APIC stuff. For this specific file,
hard_smp_processor_id() would otherwise be defined twice.

Jan


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