Re: [patch 08/19] i386: cleanup apic code

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Nov 10 2006 - 05:16:45 EST


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 11:16 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(switch_APIC_timer_to_ipi);
> >
> > why is this exported at all? Modules really shouldn't be touching apic
> > level details....
>
> This is exported for ACPI to handle the C3 stops lapic hell.


sounds that's so internal that it truely deserves to be a _GPL export

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