linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/2] Convert sh to use arch

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Date:	Sat, 2 May 2009 10:04:46 +0900
From:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk, cooloney@...nel.org, starvik@...s.com,
	takata@...ux-m32r.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	magnus.damm@...il.com, wli@...omorphy.com, rth@...ddle.net
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/2] Convert sh to use arch_getoffset() infrastructure.

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:36:33 -0700
> john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch converts sh to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset()
> > infrastructure 
> > 
> > I have tried cross-compiling this for sh3 and sh4. Also little has
> > changed since my last submission where it was acked. So I've taken my
> > best swing at converting this, but I'm not 100% confident I got it
> > right. Any assistance from arch maintainers or testers would be great.
> 
> arch/sh/kernel/timers/timer-cmt.c has just vanished from linux-next and
> I didn't find it popping up anywhere else, so I simply dropped that hunk
> from the patch.
> 
We have been doing a bit of timer chainsawing lately trying to get the
last stragglers moved over to clockevents/clocksource code to enable us
to kill the old bits and use GENERIC_TIME always. So, it's more bitrot by
design ;-)
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