Re: [PATCH] x86: remove unused get_bios_ebda_length

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 04:55:37PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> get_bios_ebda_length function from <asm/bios_ebda.h> was added
> in the 57d5f9f808b7650a92f31e9cd3acd3f415a22530 commit, but

You probably should've added the people involved in that commit to CC.
They might still need it, although I doubt it. :-)

> still not uses anywhere, let's remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h | 21 ---------------------
>  1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
> index aa6a317..2b00c77 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bios_ebda.h
> @@ -17,27 +17,6 @@ static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda(void)
>  	return address;	/* 0 means none */
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * Return the sanitized length of the EBDA in bytes, if it exists.
> - */
> -static inline unsigned int get_bios_ebda_length(void)
> -{
> -	unsigned int address;
> -	unsigned int length;
> -
> -	address = get_bios_ebda();
> -	if (!address)
> -		return 0;
> -
> -	/* EBDA length is byte 0 of the EBDA (stored in KiB) */
> -	length = *(unsigned char *)phys_to_virt(address);
> -	length <<= 10;
> -
> -	/* Trim the length if it extends beyond 640KiB */
> -	length = min_t(unsigned int, (640 * 1024) - address, length);
> -	return length;
> -}
> -
>  void reserve_ebda_region(void);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION
> -- 
> 2.3.3.472.g20ceeac.dirty
> 
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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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