Re: [PATCH] PCI/IO-APIC: allow PCI_IOAPIC to be user configurable on x86

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:59:22 +0000
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This adjusts PCI_IOAPIC to be user configurable (possibly as a module)
> on x86, since the base architecture code for adding IO-APICs
> dynamically isn't there yet (and hence having the code present
> everywhere is pretty pointless).
> 
> To make this consistent, a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() declaration gets
> added, the class specifications get corrected (by properly using
> PCI_DEVICE_CLASS() intended for purposes like this), and the probe and
> remove functions get their sections adjusted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx>
> 

Oooh, fancy.  Should go through the x86 tree though since the APIC code
is really x86 specific (and they're the experts in that anyway).

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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