From: Christoph Egger on
Hi all!

As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of
Erlangen we are looking at multiple integrity errors in linux'
configuration system.

This was an aid for a transition finished 2007 so not
necessary for some time now, ready for removal.

Please keep me informed of this patch getting confirmed /
merged so we can keep track of it.

Regards

Christoph Egger

[0] http://vamos1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/

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From c8092c26246db170d509dd3424e65e87e67c5a8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Egger <siccegge(a)cs.fau.de>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:24:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove transitional, dead GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR

GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR was introduced to facilate transition to the
new codebase which was finished 2007 with
b8ce33590687888ebb900d09557b8807c4539022. However the config Item and
a tiny bit of code wasn't removed back then which is adressed by this
patch.

One might consider getting rid of GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD
alltogether however this patch is limited to changes to affecting the
actual build process in any way.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge(a)cs.fau.de>
---
include/linux/clockchips.h | 4 ----
kernel/time/Kconfig | 2 +-
2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
index fc53492..3ad8331 100644
--- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
+++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
@@ -139,11 +139,7 @@ clockevents_calc_mult_shift(struct clock_event_device *ce, u32 freq, u32 minsec)
freq, minsec);
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
extern void clockevents_notify(unsigned long reason, void *arg);
-#else
-# define clockevents_notify(reason, arg) do { } while (0)
-#endif

#else /* CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD */

diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 95ed429..18ed376 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ config HIGH_RES_TIMERS
config GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD
bool
default y
- depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS || GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR
+ depends on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS

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1.6.3.3









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