Re: [PATCH 01/21] ntp: Remove unused tick_nsec

From: John Stultz
Date: Wed Sep 11 2024 - 16:06:52 EST


On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:17 AM Anna-Maria Behnsen
<anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> tick_nsec is only updated in the NTP core, but there are no users.
>
> Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the cleanup!

It would be nice to point to when/why the users were removed, but from
some quick archeology I didn't find a single insightful change, just a
number of places realizing they weren't using their references to it
and dropping it bit by bit.

Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks
-john