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Message-ID: <20201015095307.GS1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:53:07 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <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>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:53:29AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 5:46 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> > With Arm EBSA110 gone, nothing uses it any more, so the corresponding
> > code and the Kconfig option can be removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> Very nice cleanup.
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>
> At some point we should do a retrospect about how hard it really is for
> us to get rid of some really annoying core legacy codepaths and the best
> strategy for doing so, even though this took 11+ years as Thomas
> says it still looks like a solid path to move over to a generic framework,
> only it requires enough gritty people (like you) to hang around and do the
> work piece by piece.
Don't be misled. It was not a matter of "enough gritty people", it
was a matter that EBSA110 was blocking it.
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