netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM, timers: ebsa110 cleanup

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Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:55:08 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM, timers: ebsa110 cleanup

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:45:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ebsa110 platform is the last thing that uses
> CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET, and Russell has previously said that he
> thinks the platform can be retired now.
> 
> Removing it allows us clean up the timer code by throwing out all of
> the references to arch_gettimeoffset().
> 
> The am79c961a network driver can presumably also go, as no other platform
> references it.

As far as I know, that is correct; it's rather specific to the
platform.

> I don't expect these to make it into the coming merge window, posting here
> as an RFC, and as a reference for the mildly related timer tick series.

For the ebsa110 and am79c961a patches:

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

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