Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/2] Convert sh to use arch_getoffset() infrastructure.

Paul Mundt
2009-05-02T01:10:26Z

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:36:33 -0700
> john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch converts sh to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset()
> > infrastructure
> >
> > I have tried cross-compiling this for sh3 and sh4. Also little has
> > changed since my last submission where it was acked. So I've taken my
> > best swing at converting this, but I'm not 100% confident I got it
> > right. Any assistance from arch maintainers or testers would be great.
>
> arch/sh/kernel/timers/timer-cmt.c has just vanished from linux-next and
> I didn't find it popping up anywhere else, so I simply dropped that hunk
> from the patch.
>
We have been doing a bit of timer chainsawing lately trying to get the
last stragglers moved over to clockevents/clocksource code to enable us
to kill the old bits and use GENERIC_TIME always. So, it's more bitrot by
design ;-)