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From: gerg@snapgear•com (Greg Ungerer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ARM: ks8695: convert to generic time and clocksource
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 22:57:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5044A954.4000706@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdab72Z86i21TNohS0YO=Bav7eQgHwQyXa0tXQB=0hhgAg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Liunus,

On 09/03/2012 10:02 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de> wrote:
>> On Friday 31 August 2012, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>>> (BTW I had not clue the 68K maintainer had a platform like
>>> this, fun!)
>>
>> Note that this platform is one of those we talked about removing
>> from the kernel for potentially being completely unused.
>
> This clock stuff was a lackmus test from my side. The idea
> was that if noone tested the patches I would instead
> propose a patch deleting the platform.
>
> Guess what: Greg jumps out like jack-in-the-box.

That is annoying :-)


> I suspect
> some of these platforms may have more users than we
> believe.

I know the guys at www.opengear.com are still building hardware around
the KS8695. And they update to modern kernels from time to time. So its
not completely obsolete yet. I have some SnapGear boards based around it
too, though they went out of production about 2 years ago.

Regards
Greg


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-03 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29 18:27 [PATCH 4/4] ARM: ks8695: convert to generic time and clocksource Linus Walleij
2012-08-31  6:20 ` Greg Ungerer
2012-08-31 23:43   ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-02 11:45     ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-02 18:49     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03  4:41       ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-03 11:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 12:51           ` Greg Ungerer
2012-09-03 12:02       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-03 12:57         ` Greg Ungerer [this message]
2012-09-03 13:24           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-09-03 14:55             ` Andrew Victor
2012-09-05  5:05               ` Olof Johansson
2012-09-07  5:42             ` Greg Ungerer

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