linux-kernel - Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 19:36:01 -0500
From:   Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
        Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>, Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
Subject: Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed.

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Cc: + Mike
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)?  It's the only driver that
> > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
> >