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Subject: Re: make smp_prepare_cpu to a weak function
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 20:40:27 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 17:07 -0700, Ashok Raj wrote:
> +int __attribute__((weak)) smp_prepare_cpu (int cpu)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}


ehhh what does this attribute mean here?????