linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] treewide: Convert clockevents

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1501221121570.5526@nanos>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:23:58 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Convert clockevents_notify to use int cpu

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
> As far as I can tell, there's no value indirecting
> the cpu passed to this function via a void *.
> 
> Update all the callers and called functions from within
> clockevents_notify.

Aside of that there is no value for this 'notification' function at
all. This should be seperate explicit calls. The notify function is a
leftover from the original implementation which used actual notifier
chains. I'll send out a cleanup series later today.

Thanks,

	tglx


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