[RFC Patch Part1 V1 10/30] x86, ioapic: kill unused global variable timer_through_8259

[Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>]

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h |    4 ----
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c |    3 ---
 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
index 8f472daea221..0c448ac14abf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
@@ -130,9 +130,6 @@ extern int noioapicquirk;
 /* -1 if "noapic" boot option passed */
 extern int noioapicreroute;
 
-/* 1 if the timer IRQ uses the '8259A Virtual Wire' mode */
-extern int timer_through_8259;
-
 /*
  * If we use the IO-APIC for IRQ routing, disable automatic
  * assignment of PCI IRQ's.
@@ -214,7 +211,6 @@ extern void io_apic_eoi(unsigned int apic, unsigned int vector);
 
 #define io_apic_assign_pci_irqs 0
 #define setup_ioapic_ids_from_mpc x86_init_noop
-static const int timer_through_8259 = 0;
 static inline void ioapic_insert_resources(void) { }
 #define gsi_top (NR_IRQS_LEGACY)
 static inline int mp_find_ioapic(u32 gsi) { return 0; }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 1041b227726a..a338d9601841 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -2664,8 +2664,6 @@ static int __init disable_timer_pin_setup(char *arg)
 }
 early_param("disable_timer_pin_1", disable_timer_pin_setup);
 
-int timer_through_8259 __initdata;
-
 /*
  * This code may look a bit paranoid, but it's supposed to cooperate with
  * a wide range of boards and BIOS bugs.  Fortunately only the timer IRQ
@@ -2770,7 +2768,6 @@ static inline void __init check_timer(void)
 		legacy_pic->unmask(0);
 		if (timer_irq_works()) {
 			apic_printk(APIC_QUIET, KERN_INFO "....... works.\n");
-			timer_through_8259 = 1;
 			goto out;
 		}
 		/*
-- 
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