From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
device-drivers-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>,
Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 4/4] time: remove the timecompare code.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:44:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5065E1F0.3000202@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e100d86136270dae62ff546e3a6c5ef10631c68c.1348851539.git.richardcochran@gmail.com>
On 09/28/2012 10:20 AM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> This patch removes the timecompare code from the kernel. The top five
> reasons to do this are:
>
> 1. There are no more users of this code.
> 2. The original idea was a bit weak.
> 3. The original author has disappeared.
> 4. The code was not general purpose but tuned to a particular hardware,
> 5. There are better ways to accomplish clock synchronization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Nice cleanup!
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
thanks!
-john
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 17:20 [PATCH RFC net-next 0/4] Convert blackfin to phc and remove timecompare Richard Cochran
2012-09-28 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 1/4] bfin_mac: only advertise hardware time stamped when enabled Richard Cochran
2012-09-28 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 2/4] bfin_mac: replace sys time stamps with raw ones instead Richard Cochran
2012-10-30 9:17 ` [uclinux-dist-devel] " Bob Liu
2012-10-30 13:41 ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-31 6:29 ` Bob Liu
2012-10-31 6:36 ` Bob Liu
2012-10-31 8:21 ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-31 8:36 ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-31 9:00 ` Bob Liu
2012-10-31 12:46 ` Richard Cochran
2012-11-01 2:08 ` Bob Liu
2012-11-01 8:41 ` Richard Cochran
2012-11-01 8:54 ` Bob Liu
2012-11-01 9:35 ` Richard Cochran
[not found] ` <20121101093540.GB5949-TJb37gCd1q6chkuNt9O67llkmcu1nq/N@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-01 9:39 ` Bob Liu
2012-11-01 9:42 ` [uclinux-dist-devel] " Richard Cochran
2012-10-31 6:47 ` Bob Liu
2012-10-31 7:57 ` Richard Cochran
2012-09-28 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 3/4] bfin_mac: offer a PTP Hardware Clock Richard Cochran
2012-09-28 17:20 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 4/4] time: remove the timecompare code Richard Cochran
2012-09-28 17:44 ` John Stultz [this message]
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