Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

2017-06-20 Thread John Stultz
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:21:31PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: >> 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 ac

Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

2017-06-20 Thread Michael Ellerman
John Stultz writes: > 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 transit

Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

2017-06-20 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:21:31PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > 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, P

[PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

2017-06-20 Thread John Stultz
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 sen