From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>,
y2038 Mailman List <y2038@lists.linaro.org>,
Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v6 10/43] compat_ioctl: move rtc handling into rtc-dev.c
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:28:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2+wEH5mtq_vF6fTSkmCfBeKHOvNmjbvViiHFWxUAjV_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191023102937.GK3125@piout.net>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:29 PM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> wrote:
> On 22/10/2019 14:14:21+0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 6:30 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I don't see any chance that this code is revived. If anyone wanted to
> > make it work, the right approach would be to use the rtc framework
> > and rewrite the code first.
> >
> > I could send a patch to remove the dead code though if that helps.
> >
>
> Please do.
Ok, done. Speaking of removing rtc drivers, should we just kill off
drivers/char/rtc.c and drivers/char/efirtc.c as well? I don't remember
why we left them in the tree, but I'm fairly sure they are not actually
needed.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 19:08 [PATCH v6 00/43] compat_ioctl: remove most of fs/compat_ioctl.c Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:08 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 01/43] fix compat handling of FICLONERANGE, FIDEDUPERANGE and FS_IOC_FIEMAP Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 02/43] FIGETBSZ: fix compat Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 03/43] compat: itanic doesn't have one Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 04/43] do_vfs_ioctl(): use saner types Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 05/43] compat: move FS_IOC_RESVSP_32 handling to fs/ioctl.c Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 06/43] compat_sys_ioctl(): make parallel to do_vfs_ioctl() Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 07/43] ceph: fix compat_ioctl for ceph_dir_operations Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 08/43] compat_ioctl: drop FIOQSIZE table entry Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 09/43] compat_ioctl: add compat_ptr_ioctl() Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 10/43] compat_ioctl: move rtc handling into rtc-dev.c Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:25 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-09 19:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-17 13:42 ` [Y2038] " Ben Hutchings
2019-10-17 14:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-17 18:19 ` Ben Hutchings
2019-10-22 4:30 ` Al Viro
2019-10-22 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-23 10:29 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-23 14:28 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-10-23 14:34 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-23 15:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-23 10:32 ` Alexandre Belloni
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 11/43] compat_ioctl: move drivers to compat_ptr_ioctl Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-14 19:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-22 4:34 ` Al Viro
2019-10-22 10:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-23 3:17 ` Al Viro
2019-10-23 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 12/43] compat_ioctl: move more " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 13/43] compat_ioctl: use correct compat_ptr() translation in drivers Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 14/43] compat_ioctl: move tape handling into drivers Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 15/43] compat_ioctl: move ATYFB_CLK handling to atyfb driver Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 16/43] compat_ioctl: move isdn/capi ioctl translation into driver Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-17 18:25 ` [Y2038] " Ben Hutchings
2019-10-18 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 17/43] compat_ioctl: move rfcomm handlers " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 18/43] compat_ioctl: move hci_sock " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 19/43] compat_ioctl: remove HCIUART handling Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 20/43] compat_ioctl: remove HIDIO translation Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 21/43] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 22/43] compat_ioctl: remove IGNORE_IOCTL() Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 23/43] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/random commands Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 24/43] compat_ioctl: remove joystick ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 25/43] compat_ioctl: remove PCI " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 26/43] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/raw " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 27/43] compat_ioctl: remove last RAID handling code Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 28/43] compat_ioctl: remove unused convert_in_user macro Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 29/43] gfs2: add compat_ioctl support Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 29/43] REPLACE " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 30/43] fs: compat_ioctl: move FITRIM emulation into file systems Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [f2fs-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 31/43] compat_ioctl: move WDIOC handling into wdt drivers Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-18 12:49 ` [Y2038] " Ben Hutchings
2019-10-18 13:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 32/43] compat_ioctl: reimplement SG_IO handling Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 33/43] af_unix: add compat_ioctl support Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 34/43] compat_ioctl: handle SIOCOUTQNSD Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 35/43] compat_ioctl: move SIOCOUTQ out of compat_ioctl.c Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 36/43] tty: handle compat PPP ioctls Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 37/43] compat_ioctl: unify copy-in of ppp filters Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 38/43] compat_ioctl: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS to ppp_generic Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 39/43] compat_ioctl: handle PPPIOCGIDLE for 64-bit time_t Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 40/43] compat_ioctl: ppp: move simple commands into ppp_generic.c Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 41/43] compat_ioctl: move SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE handling Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 42/43] pktcdvd: add compat_ioctl handler Arnd Bergmann
2019-10-09 19:10 ` [PATCH v6 43/43] scsi: sd: enable compat ioctls for sed-opal Arnd Bergmann
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