Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:54:23AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> > Your Patch at (URL wrapped)
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git; \
> > a=commit;h=99c6e60afff8a7bc6121aeb847dab27c556cf0c9
> >
> > introduced an additional Parameter (int early) to get_cpu_vendor.
> > However, the same function is called in arch/i386/kernel/apic.c (via
> > an explicit extern declaration that doesn't have the new early parameter.
>
> Sigh. All people adding externs like this should be ...
>
> But it won't change anything - the only difference with
> the flag being 0 is to read less fields, but since the function
> has been called earlier and the data has not changed
> the output is always the same.
I'm not so sure that "argument not explicitly given" will always turn out
zero... more like "random" memory contents.
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