linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/21] ntp: Remove unused tick

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Message-ID: <CANDhNCp38Zydv-6XBCfWp3gDUhdNVWB76_Asz+oBM3VUoE9JKg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:06:25 -0700
From: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
To: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@...hat.com>, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>, 
	Christopher S Hall <christopher.s.hall@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/21] ntp: Remove unused tick_nsec

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:17 AM Anna-Maria Behnsen
<anna-maria@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>
> tick_nsec is only updated in the NTP core, but there are no users.
>
> Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>

Thanks for the cleanup!

It would be nice to point to when/why the users were removed, but from
some quick archeology I didn't find a single insightful change, just a
number of places realizing they weren't using their references to it
and dropping it bit by bit.

Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>

thanks
-john