Re: [PATCH v8 clocksource 2/5] clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, Apr 17 2021 at 15:54, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> I so wish we could just delete all of this horror instead of making it
>> more horrible.
>
> Revisit deleting it in five years if there are no issues, whatever
> "issue" might mean in this context?  Five years should give time for
> this to propagate to the enterprise distros.

That does not help with the fact that the broken hardware will still be
around in 5 years from now. Which is what prevents me from deleting the
whole watchdog muck ...

Thanks,

        tglx