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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Remove
 omap_dm_timer_set_load_start
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
        Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
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From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:13:04 +0200
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On 11/04/2019 21:36, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 09:20:56PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 10/04/2019 22:07, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> * Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> [190410 17:02]:
>>>> can you ask for an acked-by before pulling a patch in your tree?
>>>
>>> I certainly do ask and wait for acks where possible :)
>>
>> Ok, I may have missed them.
>>
>>> Note that I have not applied this patch. I just added
>>> Keerthy to Cc on this thread so maybe you misread the
>>> message earlier. My comment "seems like no other
>>> takers" was for Ladislav regarding somebody picking up
>>> his earlier work, not for picking up this patch :)
>>
>> Actually I was referring to the commit 592ea6bd1fad. Anyway as stated
>> above I could have miss your call.
>>
>>> In any case, I've been waiting for you guys to pick up
>>> the patch, here's my ack if you're waiting for it:
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
>>
>> The patch does not apply. Is it aligned with tip/timers/core ?
>>
> 
> The commit this fixes is in timers/urgent and it doesn't look like that
> has been backmerged into timers/core.

I can see those fixes in timers/core:

Fixes: 592ea6bd1fad ("clocksource: timer-ti-dm: Make unexported
functions static")
Fixes: 008258d995a6 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make
omap_dm_timer_set_load_start() static")


Are you referring to another fix?

>>>> On 04/04/2019 16:17, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>>> * Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> [190327 08:12]:
>>>>>> Hello Nathan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:01:27PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>>>>>>> Commit 008258d995a6 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make
>>>>>>> omap_dm_timer_set_load_start() static") made omap_dm_time_set_load_start
>>>>>>> static because its prototype was not defined in a header. Unfortunately,
>>>>>>> this causes a build warning on multi_v7_defconfig because this function
>>>>>>> is not used anywhere in this translation unit:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c:589:12: error: unused function
>>>>>>> 'omap_dm_timer_set_load_start' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In fact, omap_dm_timer_set_load_start hasn't been used anywhere since
>>>>>>> commit f190be7f39a5 ("staging: tidspbridge: remove driver") and the
>>>>>>> prototype was removed in commit 592ea6bd1fad ("clocksource: timer-ti-dm:
>>>>>>> Make unexported functions static"), which is probably where this should
>>>>>>> have happened.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alternatively you might want to look at "clocksource: timer-ti-dm: Add event
>>>>>> capture": https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10237217/ (it makes use of
>>>>>> function being removed here). It is a part of an attempt to add event capture
>>>>>> for OMAP. Of course I would like this functionality to be implemented, but
>>>>>> as I do not have a time to continue, I cannot really object removing this
>>>>>> function.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just in case you'd be interested in finishing this task ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Well seems like no other takers :) We can always find the missing
>>>>> function in git history when needed, so I suggest we apply this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adding Keerthy to Cc as he just posted a similar patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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