Re: [PATCH] i386 double fault enhancements

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >Can't we use CONFIG_DOUBLEFAULT throughout?  It's very much clearer.
> 
> We could, when not considering broader use. I specifically introduced N_EXCEPTION_TSS
> so that it wouldn't be as hard as it currently is to have other exceptions got through task
> gates (nlkd's fault/trap/abort infrastructure does, for example).

So please keep this in your out of tree patch.  In mainline it's just
needlessly obsfucating the code.

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