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+ker...@armlinux.org.uk> -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTP is here! 40Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!
