Re: [PATCH] microblaze: Remove architecture heart beat code

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:47 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
> > There is no reason to keep this gpio based code in architecture. Use
> > ledtrig-heartbeat.c instead which is much more flexible then this
> > ancient code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>
> Maybe the arch maintainers will complain that the corresponding
> new heartbeat code is not put in place in the same patch, but I
> think the change is so much overdue that I don't see why they
> can't do that themselves if they have interest in it.
>
> BTW: m68k has the same kind of luggage, in the middle of it
> timekeeping code:
> arch/m68k/kernel/time.c

Fixing that means converting m68k to GPIO first, which would take lots of
heartbeats ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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