Re: ppc32 MMCR0_PMXE saga.

[Mikael Pettersson]

Thomas Gleixner writes:
 > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 23:47 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > I'm at a loss to explain whats been happening with this symbol.
 > 
 > The macro was duplicated in -mm1.
 > I sent a patch against -mm1
 > The patch went upstream without the perfctr-ppc.patch, which contained
 > the macro define in regs.h.
 > 
 > So a bit of confusion came up

The sane thing to do is to split -mm's perfctr-ppc.patch so that
the new symbolic constants can go into -linus w/o having to drag
in the experimental perfctr stuff from -mm.

This wasn't an issue before because the -linus kernel didn't
acquire any use of PMXE until very recently.

/Mikael
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