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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Cleanup the unused __arch_local_irq_restore()
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 23:22 +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> In history, __arch_local_irq_restore() is only used by SMTC. However,
> SMTC support has been removed since 3.16, this patch remove the unused
> function.
>=20
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
[...]

If this is only a clean-up, then it is not suitable for stable.

If this fixes a real problem, you should explain it in the commit
message.

Ben.

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