Re: [patch] io-apic cleanup #3, BK-curr

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 11:12:11 EST


On Thu, 27 May 2004, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> io_apic_sync() was introduced in 2.1.104 and it was originally done for
> masking and unmasking as well. Later the unmasking use got removed but
> the masking use lingered around. I dont think it was ever justified to
> do it and clearly since the lack of io_apic_sync() didnt break some of
> the other writes we do to the IO-APIC registers, it must be unnecessary
> in the masking case too. Maciej?

Go ahead, sure.

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