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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:25:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] m68k: Drop arch_gettimeoffset and adopt
 clocksource API
To:     Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
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Hi Finn,

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 10:55 AM Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:13 AM Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Finn Thain wrote:
> > > > This series removes "select ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET" from arch/m68k
> > > > and converts users of arch_gettimeoffset to the clocksource API.
> > > > Various bugs are fixed along the way.
> > >
> > > Are there any plans to merge this series, Geert?
> >
> > Has this been tested on all/most platforms? Or do you think is it safe to
> > apply regardless?
> >
>
> The amiga, atari and mac patches have been tested.
>
> The apollo, q40, sun3 and sun3x patches are safe though untested, AFAIK. I
> confirmed that, in qemu at least, the default jiffies clocksource will
> work, and the patch is trivial.
>
> That leaves bvme6000, hp300, mvme147 and mvme16x. Those have not been
> tested. Here are some options for those platforms:
>
> 1) Apply the patches untested (gaining new clocksources and some API
> modernization for m68k, while fixing old bugs and potentially introducing
> new bugs).

Thank you, applied and queued for v5.2.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds