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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] ARM, timers: ebsa110 cleanup
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:45:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ebsa110 platform is the last thing that uses
> CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET, and Russell has previously said that he
> thinks the platform can be retired now.
>
> Removing it allows us clean up the timer code by throwing out all of
> the references to arch_gettimeoffset().
>
> The am79c961a network driver can presumably also go, as no other platform
> references it.

As far as I know, that is correct; it's rather specific to the
platform.

> I don't expect these to make it into the coming merge window, posting here
> as an RFC, and as a reference for the mildly related timer tick series.

For the ebsa110 and am79c961a patches:

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

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