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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 20:10:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT patch 0/7] timekeeping: Unify clock MONOTONIC and clock
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On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > This really needs lot of testing, documentation updates and more input from
> > > userspace folks to make a final decision.
> > 
> > Honestly, I don't think we'd get the testing this kind of change needs
> > except by just trying it.
> > 
> > I'm willing to merge this in the 4.17 merge window, with the
> > understanding that if people end up reporting issues, we may just have
> > to revert it all, and chalk it up to a learning experience - and add
> > the appropriate commentary in the kernel code about exactly what it
> > was that depended on that MONO/BOOT difference.
> 
> Fair enough. So we maybe just merge the first two patches and merge the
> cleanups and consolidation patches when we feel good enough.
> 
> I surely can queue the whole lot in next, but from PTI the experience I
> know how good the test coverage is. 4.14.stable would be the ideal testing
> ground. /me runs fast and hides

That said, at least the people who are asking for that should provide
testing results _before_ this gets applied or merged upstream.

Thanks,

	tglx