Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Wed Mar 02 2005 - 02:53:11 EST


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:52:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-02-28 at 19:20, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> > One such case is the mtrr code, where struct mtrr_ops has an
> > init field pointing at __init functions. Unless I overlook
> > something, this case may be easy to settle, since the .init
> > field is never used.
>
> The failure to invoke the ->init operator appears to be the bug.
> The centaur code definitely wants the mcr init function to be called.

Yes, I expected that to be the answer. Therefore #if 0 instead of deleting.
But if calling ->init() is needed, and it has not been done the past
three years, the question arises whether there are any users.

Andries

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