From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934058Ab3GWWKV (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:10:21 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:56126 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932657Ab3GWWKT (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:10:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [2620:0:1000:1b02:6e3b:e5ff:fe16:f1aa] In-Reply-To: <20130625200211.GA11625@codeaurora.org> References: <20130625200211.GA11625@codeaurora.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:10:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Remove ARM local timer API From: Olof Johansson To: Stephen Boyd Cc: "arm@kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Thomas Gleixner , Russell King , David Brown , Barry Song , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Olof/Arnd, > > These patches remove the ARM local timer API. The ARM architected > timers have already moved away from this API so this series > migrates the rest of the users allowing us to remove the API > entirely. Thomas has been kind enough to take the first two > patches into timers/core in the tip tree (thanks Thomas!) so I've > merged that into v3.10-rc1 and then applied the rest of the > patches on top. Let me know if this is acceptable. > > These patches have been through multiple rounds and tested by > multiple people since before the 3.10 merge window closed. Only > Barry's ack is missing (Cced). > > Since I don't have a tree on kernel.org, David Brown has been > kind enough to push my tag out to his repo. Please pull. > > The following changes since commit 42cba6e27c4cddc4df701c597dbfa666e1c013c8: > > Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into remove-local-timers (2013-06-24 17:45:02 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davidb/linux-msm.git tags/remove-local-timers > > for you to fetch changes up to 060fd3043e5e3488504b9e70182e188dd9113aea: > > ARM: smp: Remove local timer API (2013-06-24 17:47:34 -0700) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Now that we have a generic arch hook for broadcast we can remove the local > timer API entirely. Doing so will reduce code in ARM core, reduce the > architecture dependencies of our timer drivers, and simplify the code because > we no longer go through an architecture layer that is essentially a hotplug > notifier. Hi, Merged in as localtimer/removal into next/cleanup. I had quite a few merge conflicts due to the __cpuinit removal, so please double-check my resolutions. -Olof From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:10:17 -0700 Subject: [GIT PULL] Remove ARM local timer API In-Reply-To: <20130625200211.GA11625@codeaurora.org> References: <20130625200211.GA11625@codeaurora.org> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Olof/Arnd, > > These patches remove the ARM local timer API. The ARM architected > timers have already moved away from this API so this series > migrates the rest of the users allowing us to remove the API > entirely. Thomas has been kind enough to take the first two > patches into timers/core in the tip tree (thanks Thomas!) so I've > merged that into v3.10-rc1 and then applied the rest of the > patches on top. Let me know if this is acceptable. > > These patches have been through multiple rounds and tested by > multiple people since before the 3.10 merge window closed. Only > Barry's ack is missing (Cced). > > Since I don't have a tree on kernel.org, David Brown has been > kind enough to push my tag out to his repo. Please pull. > > The following changes since commit 42cba6e27c4cddc4df701c597dbfa666e1c013c8: > > Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into remove-local-timers (2013-06-24 17:45:02 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davidb/linux-msm.git tags/remove-local-timers > > for you to fetch changes up to 060fd3043e5e3488504b9e70182e188dd9113aea: > > ARM: smp: Remove local timer API (2013-06-24 17:47:34 -0700) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Now that we have a generic arch hook for broadcast we can remove the local > timer API entirely. Doing so will reduce code in ARM core, reduce the > architecture dependencies of our timer drivers, and simplify the code because > we no longer go through an architecture layer that is essentially a hotplug > notifier. Hi, Merged in as localtimer/removal into next/cleanup. I had quite a few merge conflicts due to the __cpuinit removal, so please double-check my resolutions. -Olof