Re: [PATCH] fix compile breakage caused by x86: add->pre_time_init to x86_quirks

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 23:23 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > >From da69eaed98248bf4b29e94d62a4e01a5c3758669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:29 -0500
> > Subject: [VOYAGER] x86: add voyager pre_time_init_hook
> > 
> > This was introduced by:
> > 
> > Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Sat Jul 19 18:02:26 2008 -0700
> > 
> >     x86: add ->pre_time_init to x86_quirks
> > 
> > In theory, voyager could also make use of the x86_quirks hooks but,
> > unfortunately, they're not set up correctly for that to happen yet.
> 
> okay, so how about setting them up that way instead? That way we win 
> twice: it becomes a tiny bit easier to add Voyager support to the 
> generic platform code, and we also fix the build breakage.

Sure, it should be possible ... but reworking the current quirk
infrastructure would definitely be an enhancement, whereas this is a
compile fix for 2.6.28-rc

James


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