[PATCH] remove overwrite_paravirt_ops

[Chris Wright]

It's not used, and we can be explicit in a paravirt_ops about which native
pieces are preferred, so it's not needed.  Also, the loop is a bit dodgy
(works ok, since sizeof(unsigned int) is 4 on x86, but...)  Before I
commit, any objections?

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

diff -r ea8912509a0e arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c       Wed Aug 16 09:49:27 2006 -0400
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c       Wed Aug 16 11:34:12 2006 -0400
@@ -402,18 +402,6 @@ static void __init default_banner(void)
 {
        printk(KERN_INFO "Booting paravirtualized kernel on %s\n",
               paravirt_ops.name);
-}
-
-/* Overwrite ops struct with non-NULL ops entries from this struct. */
-void overwrite_paravirt_ops(const struct paravirt_ops *ops)
-{
-       unsigned int i;
-       void **src = (void **)ops, **dst = (void **)&paravirt_ops;
-
-       for (i = 0; i < sizeof(struct paravirt_ops) / 4; i++) {
-               if (src[i])
-                       dst[i] = src[i];
-       }
 }
 
 static int __init print_banner(void)
diff -r ea8912509a0e include/asm-i386/paravirt.h
--- a/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h       Wed Aug 16 09:49:27 2006 -0400
+++ b/include/asm-i386/paravirt.h       Wed Aug 16 11:34:48 2006 -0400
@@ -110,9 +110,6 @@ struct paravirt_ops
                __attribute__((__section__(".paravirtprobe"))) = fn
 
 extern struct paravirt_ops paravirt_ops;
-
-/* Overwrite ops struct with non-NULL ops entries from this struct. */
-void overwrite_paravirt_ops(const struct paravirt_ops *ops);
 
 /* Non-paravirtualized implementations of various operations for
    back-ends which don't need their own version. */
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