Re: smp-cmp.c: CDFIXMES

From: Nick Krause
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 11:19:29 EST


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:40:59AM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> Are the lines with CDFIXME still needed? If not please tell me as I
>> will send in a patch removing these
>> two from this file in order to help you guys out :).
>> Cheers Nick
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I imagine the only answer any of us can give you is "we don't know". If
> we did then we'd have removed the code or the comments already.
>
> Please do note that the smp-cmp.c file lives behind a Kconfig option
> that is now marked as deprecated, and that there is other work going on
> in areas related to clocksource & clock events on the applicable
> systems. So whilst someone could spend the time figuring out whether
> those lines are useful, I expect that cleaning up these old FIXMEs is
> not a particularly high priority for anyone right now.
>
> If you'll leave them alone for a while I expect they'll disappear one
> way or another in a few cycles time, along with the rest of the file.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul


That's Ok Paul, just wanted to known when the file was going away as it seemed
old if you want help with this please let me known :).
Cheers Nick
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