Re: [PATCH v7] acpi: apei: remove the unused dead-code for SEA/NMI notification type

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Oct 21 2017 - 08:15:41 EST


On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 06:35:03PM +0800, Dongjiu Geng wrote:
> For the SEA notification, the two functions ghes_sea_add() and
> ghes_sea_remove() are only called when CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA
> is defined. If not, it will return errors in the ghes_probe()
> and not continue. If the probe is failed, the ghes_sea_remove()
> also has no chance to be called. Hence, remove the unnecessary
> handling when CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA is not defined.
>
> For the NMI notification, it has the same issue as SEA notification,
> so also remove the unused dead-code for it.
>
> Cc: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

I gave you Reviewed-by, not Signed-off-by.

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