linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove "mfgpt_irq=" from the kernel-parameters.txt file

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Message-ID: <76226735-d1d3-4741-9c8d-44a3a4d1606a@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:39:42 +0200
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove "mfgpt_irq=" from the
 kernel-parameters.txt file

On 18/06/2024 00.23, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com> writes:
> 
>> The kernel parameter mfgpt_irq has been removed in 2009 already in the
>> commit c95d1e53ed89 ("cs5535: drop the Geode-specific MFGPT/GPIO code").
>> Time to remove it from the documentation now, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ----
>>   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> index a9b905bbc8ca..756ac1e22813 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -3426,10 +3426,6 @@
>>   			deep    - Suspend-To-RAM or equivalent (if supported)
>>   			See Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst.
>>   
>> -	mfgpt_irq=	[IA-32] Specify the IRQ to use for the
>> -			Multi-Function General Purpose Timers on AMD Geode
>> -			platforms.
>> -
>>   	mfgptfix	[X86-32] Fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when
>>   			the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS
>>   			version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the
> 
> So I am unable to get this one to apply; which kernel version did you
> base it on?

Looks like this one got picked up via the x86 tree already:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=9b9eec8dc284f33f505cec48d88b42ebad4da9cc

  Thomas