Re: [PATCH v2 07/15] MIPS: IP27: clean out sn/nmi.h

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On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 12:05:30AM +0100, Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> The only user is arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-nmi.c; this file was imported
> wholesale in 2.3.99pre9-1, and received only whitespace updates since
> then.
> 
> NMI_MAGIC isn't a magic number; it's unclear if it's actually used by
> the firmware in some capacity or if it's a holdover from copying the SGI
> code, but in the former case it's API and in the latter it's dead cruft.

it's used by firmware and Linux code to register the NMI exception
handler. Please leave arch/mips/include/asm/sn/nmi.h untouched as
it's documents firmware NMI handler usage (even when we don't use it, yet).

Thomas.

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