linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] EDAC/amd64: Remove unused register accesses

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Message-ID: <20240605085142.GUZmAnHiPyhceOBvWc@fat_crate.local>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 10:51:42 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, x86@...nel.org,
	Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] EDAC/amd64: Remove unused register accesses

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 01:26:52PM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> A number of UMC registers are read only for the purpose of debug
> printing. They are not used in any calculations. Nor do they have any
> specific debug value.
> 
> Remove these register accesses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Definitely not stable material.

With that tag dropped, applied, thx.

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