Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Jun 21 2017 - 02:15:53 EST


John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD was introduced five years ago
> to allow a transition from the old vsyscall implementations to
> the new method (which simplified internal accounting and made
> timekeeping more precise).
>
> However, PPC and IA64 have yet to make the transition, despite
> in some cases me sending test patches to try to help it along.

Any chance you can review/ack the patch from Paul to convert powerpc
to the new style? :D

cheers