Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver
From: Dimitri Sivanich
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 20:36:30 EST
Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed.
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Cc: + Mike
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)? It's the only driver that
> > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
> >