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SubjectRe: [tip:timers/core] mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver
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On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 03:58 -0700, tip-bot for Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Commit-ID: 07903ada96139ced48f2f893fe57a26a8fbc6043

Couple trivial comments:

> mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver
[]
> drivers/char/mmtimer.c | 858 ----------------------------------------------
> include/uapi/linux/time.h | 6 +-
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 0e7fcb0..0000000
> --- a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,858 +0,0 @@
> -/*

[ etc...]

In the future, please use git format-patch -M to avoid
listing the
contents of the file deletion.

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/time.h b/include/uapi/linux/time.h
[]
> @@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ struct itimerval {
> #define CLOCK_BOOTTIME 7
> #define CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM 8
> #define CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM 9
> -#define CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE 10 /* Hardware specific */
> +/*
> + * The driver implementing this got removed. The clock ID is kept as a
> + * place holder. Do not reuse!
> + */
> +#define CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE 10
> #define CLOCK_TAI 11
>
> #define MAX_CLOCKS 16

Here the "this" comment is a bit ambiguous.

It might be better to rename CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE as well.
Maybe something like CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE_DELETED_DRIVER_DONT_REUSE.

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