linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: vpe: Remove vpe

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Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 18:56:53 +0100 (CET)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: vpe: Remove vpe_getcwd

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> I couldn't find any user of the dubious vpe_getcwd so far. So remove it and
> get rid of another set_fs(KERNEL_DS).

 IIRC it served as the path for the SP-side program to load in the AP/SP 
model.  Or something like that.  There may have been an application note 
available describing how to use this stuff.  Chances are some of the code 
may have already been removed in previous cuts.

  Maciej