Re: [PATCH] x86: APIC: Remove apic_write_around(); use alternatives

[Ingo Molnar]

* Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 15:49 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 
> > > Thank you for cleaning this up Yinghai, but this really begs the
> > > question - is having write_atomic REALLY worthwhile?
> > 
> > And this thread is about,  Maciej's cleanup patch which removed
> > write_atomic completely :)
> > 
> > Thanks to Maciej who posted this fix. It was on my todo list for
> > sometime now!
> 
> Awesome!  I just felt the need to use 'flaming crap' in a sentence 
> today, and broken APICs seemed like an easy target.  Glad to know it's 
> gone.

it's gone, but without breaking or limiting old hardware: it's done by 
moving the code into a quirk. And that's the general direction which we 
want to take in such cases - move ugly non-standard stuff into 
low-maintenance-overhead quirks.

	Ingo
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