Re: [PATCH] Convert blackfin to use arch_gettimeoffset()

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 20:25, john stultz wrote:
> > This patch converts blackfin to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset()
> > infrastructure, reducing the amount of arch specific code we need to
> > maintain.
> >
> > This patch applies on top of Linus' current -git tree (2.6.31-rc3).
> >
> > I've taken my best swing at converting this, but I'm not 100% confident
> > I got it right. My cross-compiler is now out of date (gcc4.2) so I
> > wasn't able to  check if it compiled. Any assistance from arch
> > maintainers or testers to get this merged would be great.
> 
> something seems to be off as the Blackfin defconfig now does:
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `clocksource_forward_now':
> kernel/time/timekeeping.c:82: undefined reference to `arch_gettimeoffset'
> kernel/built-in.o: In function `getnstimeofday':
> kernel/time/timekeeping.c:119: undefined reference to `arch_gettimeoffset'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> most likely because the Blackfin time.c is the old stuff
> (non-clocksource) while time-ts.c is the newer stuff (clocksource) and
> this change only touches time.c

Hrm.. Ok. I'll take a look. Thanks for testing and the pointer!

-john