This delay was in the very first OPAL console commit 6.5 years ago,
and came from the vio hvc driver. The firmware console has hardened
sufficiently to remove it.

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
index 0a72f98ee082..786e76a1e06d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_opal.c
@@ -313,14 +313,8 @@ static int udbg_opal_getc(void)
        int ch;
        for (;;) {
                ch = udbg_opal_getc_poll();
-               if (ch == -1) {
-                       /* This shouldn't be needed...but... */
-                       volatile unsigned long delay;
-                       for (delay=0; delay < 2000000; delay++)
-                               ;
-               } else {
+               if (ch != -1)
                        return ch;
-               }
        }
 }
 
-- 
2.17.0

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