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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:15:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8z9uarb.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1498022493-20292-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> writes:

> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD was introduced five years ago
> to allow a transition from the old vsyscall implementations to
> the new method (which simplified internal accounting and made
> timekeeping more precise).
>
> However, PPC and IA64 have yet to make the transition, despite
> in some cases me sending test patches to try to help it along.

Any chance you can review/ack the patch from Paul to convert powerpc
to the new style? :D

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-21  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-21  5:21 [GIT PULL][PATCH 0/4] Timekeeping items for 4.13 John Stultz
2017-06-21  5:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] time: Clean up CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW time handling John Stultz
2017-06-21  9:36   ` Will Deacon
2017-06-21  5:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD John Stultz
2017-06-21  6:11   ` Paul Mackerras
2017-06-21  6:23     ` John Stultz
2017-06-21  6:15   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-06-21  5:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] kselftests: timers: Fix inconsistency-check to not ignore first timestamp John Stultz
2017-06-21  5:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] kselftests: timers: Add test for frequency step John Stultz
2017-06-21  5:23 ` [GIT PULL][PATCH 0/4] Timekeeping items for 4.13 John Stultz

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