Re: Improperly handled case in arch/mips/au1000/common/time.c

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:07:27AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:56:25PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> > I think this is a good example to show benefit of code sharing.
> > There is no good reason for au1x00 boards of not using new time.c.
> > You get to write less board code, fewer bugs and future proof.
> 
> There are just three configurations left using CONFIG_OLD_TIME_C:
> 
>  - EV64120 which I guess can be considered abandonded
>  - Momenco Ocelot (Matthew, feel like you have time to take care of
>    this?)
>  - RM200  (semi-maintained, my turn to fix it ...)
> 
> Seems like it's time to get rid of CONFIG_OLD_TIME_C.
>

If we were going to get rid of CONFIG_OLD_TIME_C, I propose
to make CONFIG_NEW_TIME_C as the default and therefore removed as well.
And make other boards using private time_init() functions to use 
CONFIG_HAVE_PRIVATE_TIME. 

... in the spirit of encouraging code sharing. :)

Jun