Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Add some dummy static inline functions

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Baolin Wang wrote:

> The patch 2 in this patchset adding tracepoints for alarmtimers will build
> failed on S390 platform, due to S390 defconfig did not define CONFIG_RTC_LIB
> macro to define the rtc_ktime_to_tm() function which is used in this patch.
> Thus we should add some ummy static inline functions in case CONFIG_RTC_LIB
> is not defined.

I told you before that adding these inlines has the danger that we
introduce code which uses these functions in places which does not depend
on RTC_LIB. The resulting wreckage is going to be subtle and hard to debug.

This still stands and this patch is going nowhere.

Thanks,

	tglx