Re: [RFC PATCH 06/13] m68k: Drop ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET

From: Michael Schmitz
Date: Mon Nov 12 2018 - 21:30:19 EST


Hi Finn,

Am 12.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Finn Thain:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Hi Finn,

Thanks for your patch!

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:46 AM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The functions that implement arch_gettimeoffset are re-used by
new clocksource drivers in subsequent patches.

Disabling this first affects functionality during bisection, right?


It means that all platforms have to use the 'jiffies' clocksource.

So all that happens is timer granularity drops to 10ms, then gets restored by the later patches?

I doubt that would be a large enough regression to matter for bisection, but the way you reuse the arch_gettimeoffset() code for the new read_clock() functions makes reordering of this patch to the end of the series impossible.

Best you can don, under the circumstances.

Cheers,

Michael