Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

[Christoph Hellwig]

> You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's
> another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel
> *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and
> they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user.
> 
> (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in
> every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument
> won't apply anymore.. ;)

Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless
wrapper exactly how?  If you want to help people with grepping rename
the method from read to clocksource_read..

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