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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver
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On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

Cc: + Mike

> Hi folks,
> 
> what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)?  It's the only driver that
> register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
>