Re: [patch 17/23] x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:22:35PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> smpboot is very creative with the ways to disable ioapic.
> 
> smpboot_clear_io_apic() smpboot_clear_io_apic_irqs() and
> disable_ioapic_support() serve a similar purpose.
> 
> smpboot_clear_io_apic_irqs() is the most useless of all
> functions as it clears a variable which has not been setup yet.

Useful stuff that.

> Aside of that it has the same ifdef mess and conditionals around the
> ioapic related code, which can now be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Vehemently-Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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