linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] acpi: apei: remove the unused dead-code for SEA/NMI notification type

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Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:27:00 +0800
From:   gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:     <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>, <james.morse@....com>,
        <will.deacon@....com>, <rjw@...ysocki.net>, <lenb@...nel.org>,
        <robert.moore@...el.com>, <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
        <mark.rutland@....com>, <kristina.martsenko@....com>,
        <mingo@...nel.org>, <punit.agrawal@....com>,
        <stephen.boyd@...aro.org>, <kamensky@...co.com>,
        <prarit@...hat.com>, <shiju.jose@...wei.com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devel@...ica.org>, Wuquanming <wuquanming@...wei.com>,
        Huangshaoyu <huangshaoyu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] acpi: apei: remove the unused dead-code for
 SEA/NMI notification type


On 2017/10/18 18:17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:04:28AM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote:
>> ARM does not have ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_NMI notification, which should only
>> used by x86. In the code, I see those guards are never used.
> Yeah, I see it now.

Borislav/Rafael,
  For this patch(the first one), whether it can be firstly applied?
This patch is code clean and not related with the second one.
For the second, I may discuss more with James.
Thanks so much in advance.

> 
> Thx.
> 
> --