[PATCH] timer:Remove clockevents_unregister_notifier

[PATCH] timer:Remove clockevents_unregister_notifier

[Miao Xie]

Hi everyone,

   I find a function(clockevents_unregister_notifier) which is not
called by anything in tree.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>

diff -urN linux-2.6.23-rc2.orig/kernel/time/clockevents.c linux-2.6.23-rc2/kernel/time/clockevents.c
--- linux-2.6.23-rc2.orig/kernel/time/clockevents.c	2007-08-08 13:20:38.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2/kernel/time/clockevents.c	2007-08-08 13:45:31.000000000 +0800
@@ -113,16 +113,6 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/**
- * clockevents_unregister_notifier - unregister a clock events change listener
- */
-void clockevents_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
-{
-	spin_lock(&clockevents_lock);
-	raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&clockevents_chain, nb);
-	spin_unlock(&clockevents_lock);
-}
-
 /*
  * Notify about a clock event change. Called with clockevents_lock
  * held.

diff -urN linux-2.6.23-rc2.orig/include/linux/clockchips.h linux-2.6.23-rc2/include/linux/clockchips.h
--- linux-2.6.23-rc2.orig/include/linux/clockchips.h	2007-08-08 13:20:29.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2/include/linux/clockchips.h	2007-08-08 13:46:06.000000000 +0800
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@
 extern void clockevents_set_mode(struct clock_event_device *dev,
 				 enum clock_event_mode mode);
 extern int clockevents_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-extern void clockevents_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern int clockevents_program_event(struct clock_event_device *dev,
 				     ktime_t expires, ktime_t now);
 

Re: [PATCH] timer:Remove clockevents_unregister_notifier

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:23 +0900, Miao Xie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>    I find a function(clockevents_unregister_notifier) which is not
> called by anything in tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>