linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2][RFC] staging: Remove the Android alarm-dev driver

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:06:40 -0800
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
	Elliott Hughes <enh@...gle.com>,
	Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][RFC] staging: Remove the Android alarm-dev driver

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 13:42 -0800, John Stultz wrote:
>> The functionality provided by the Android alarm-dev driver
>> should now be present in the timerfd interface (thanks to
>> Greg Hackmann and Todd Poynor).
>>
>> As of Lollipop, AOSP can make use of the timerfd if
>> alarm-dev is not present (though a fixup for setting the
>> rtc time if rtc0 isn't the backing for _ALARM clockids has
>> been applied post-Lollipop).
>>
>> Thus, we should be able to remove alarm-dev from staging.
>>
>> Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>
>> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@...gle.com>
>> Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
>> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
>> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
>
> This became commit 5da41e925656 ("staging: Remove the Android alarm-dev
> driver") in today's linux-next (ie, next-20150127). I noticed because a
> script I use to check linux-next spotted a minor problem with it.
>
>>  drivers/staging/android/Kconfig              |   9 -
>
> Here there should have been a line reading
>    drivers/staging/android/Makefile             |   1 -


Oh grumble. You're right. I'll send a cleanup patch in.

Thanks for catching this!
-john
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