Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758163AbaGWPT0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:19:26 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f175.google.com ([209.85.220.175]:42434 "EHLO mail-vc0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757732AbaGWPTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:19:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140723064657.GK30558@pburton-laptop> References: <20140723064657.GK30558@pburton-laptop> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:19:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: smp-cmp.c: CDFIXMES From: Nick Krause To: Paul Burton Cc: Ralf Baechle , John Crispin , markos.chandras@imgtec.com, Steven.Hill@imgtec.com, Linux-MIPS , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Paul Burton wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Nick Krause wrote: >> Are the lines with CDFIXME still needed? If not please tell me as I >> will send in a patch removing these >> two from this file in order to help you guys out :). >> Cheers Nick > > Hi Nick, > > I imagine the only answer any of us can give you is "we don't know". If > we did then we'd have removed the code or the comments already. > > Please do note that the smp-cmp.c file lives behind a Kconfig option > that is now marked as deprecated, and that there is other work going on > in areas related to clocksource & clock events on the applicable > systems. So whilst someone could spend the time figuring out whether > those lines are useful, I expect that cleaning up these old FIXMEs is > not a particularly high priority for anyone right now. > > If you'll leave them alone for a while I expect they'll disappear one > way or another in a few cycles time, along with the rest of the file. > > Thanks, > Paul That's Ok Paul, just wanted to known when the file was going away as it seemed old if you want help with this please let me known :). Cheers Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/