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time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Fri, 12 May 2017 17:58:18 +0000 (10:58 -0700)
committerJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:14:10 +0000 (22:14 -0700)
commit369adf04d80a7e179b9ea6d74cc01c233f142f47
treedc387d94061dbfdb3a8ef7b442184c2dec9f0370
parentfc6eead7c1e2e5376c25d2795d4539fdacbc0648
time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD was introduced five years ago
to allow a transition from the old vsyscall implementations to
the new method (which simplified internal accounting and made
timekeeping more precise).

However, PPC and IA64 have yet to make the transition, despite
in some cases me sending test patches to try to help it along.

http://patches.linaro.org/patch/30501/
http://patches.linaro.org/patch/35412/

If its helpful, my last pass at the patches can be found here:
https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git dev/oldvsyscall-cleanup

So I think its time to set a deadline and make it clear this
is going away. So this patch adds warnings about this
functionality being dropped. Likely to be in v4.15.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
kernel/time/timekeeping.c