[patch 1/4] time: Remove bogus comments

[Thomas Gleixner]

There is no global irq lock which makes a syscall magically SMP
safe. Remove the outdated comment concerning do_settimeofday() as
well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-3.2/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.2.orig/kernel/time.c
+++ linux-3.2/kernel/time.c
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct tim
 		return error;
 
 	if (tz) {
-		/* SMP safe, global irq locking makes it work. */
 		sys_tz = *tz;
 		update_vsyscall_tz();
 		if (firsttime) {
@@ -173,12 +172,7 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct tim
 		}
 	}
 	if (tv)
-	{
-		/* SMP safe, again the code in arch/foo/time.c should
-		 * globally block out interrupts when it runs.
-		 */
 		return do_settimeofday(tv);
-	}
 	return 0;
 }
 


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