ok, after look at code and git log, i knew the reasons for those strange duplicated functions.
Alexy changed
/* MP IRQ source entries */
-struct mpc_config_intsrc mp_irqs[MAX_IRQ_SOURCES];
+struct mp_config_intsrc mp_irqs[MAX_IRQ_SOURCES];
to make it decouple that with mpstable definition. so mptable will have mpc_intsrc, and acpi etc will use mp_config_intsrc
and he planed to add more member to mp_config_intsrc .... never happened.
then I added those functions with different parameters.
one year later JSR changed all back to mpc_instr...
so now have some duplicated functions....
even in mpparse.c we now have
static void print_MP_intsrc_info(struct mpc_intsrc *m)
{
apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "Int: type %d, pol %d, trig %d, bus %02x,"
" IRQ %02x, APIC ID %x, APIC INT %02x\n",
m->irqtype, m->irqflag & 3, (m->irqflag >> 2) & 3, m->srcbus,
m->srcbusirq, m->dstapic, m->dstirq);
}
static void __init print_mp_irq_info(struct mpc_intsrc *mp_irq)
{
apic_printk(APIC_VERBOSE, "Int: type %d, pol %d, trig %d, bus %02x,"
" IRQ %02x, APIC ID %x, APIC INT %02x\n",
mp_irq->irqtype, mp_irq->irqflag & 3,
(mp_irq->irqflag >> 2) & 3, mp_irq->srcbus,
mp_irq->srcbusirq, mp_irq->dstapic, mp_irq->dstirq);
}
...
So yes, we should use simple versions in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c. ( assume functions mrst.c are copied from there)
and should kill print_mp_irq_info or print_MP_intsrc_info...
Thanks
Yinghai
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