From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM, timers: ebsa110 cleanup
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:55:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008155508.GL1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008154601.1901004-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:45:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ebsa110 platform is the last thing that uses
> CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET, and Russell has previously said that he
> thinks the platform can be retired now.
>
> Removing it allows us clean up the timer code by throwing out all of
> the references to arch_gettimeoffset().
>
> The am79c961a network driver can presumably also go, as no other platform
> references it.
As far as I know, that is correct; it's rather specific to the
platform.
> I don't expect these to make it into the coming merge window, posting here
> as an RFC, and as a reference for the mildly related timer tick series.
For the ebsa110 and am79c961a patches:
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 15:45 [PATCH 0/3] ARM, timers: ebsa110 cleanup Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: remove ebsa110 platform Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: remove am79c961a driver Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 17:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 3/3] timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-14 0:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-15 7:53 ` Linus Walleij
2020-10-15 9:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-15 12:38 ` Linus Walleij
2020-10-18 9:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-10-08 15:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
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