Re: [PATCH v4 16/17] x86/ioapic: export a few functions and data structures via io_apic.h

[Wei Liu]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 08:33:49PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> We are about to implement an irqchip for IO-APIC when Linux runs as root
> on Microsoft Hypervisor. At the same time we would like to reuse
> existing code as much as possible.
> 
> Move mp_chip_data to io_apic.h and make a few helper functions
> non-static.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch can be dropped. I've figured out a much cleaner way to handle
IO-APIC due to recent changes.

Wei.