[tip:timers/core] time: Remove bogus comments

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Commit-ID:  a4ca1298d8a0472a45624fa5fb99f90f0f367187
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a4ca1298d8a0472a45624fa5fb99f90f0f367187
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:46:03 +0000
Committer:  John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:17:55 -0700

time: Remove bogus comments

There is no global irq lock which makes a syscall magically SMP
safe. Remove the outdated comment concerning do_settimeofday() as
well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time.c |    6 ------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index 73e416d..ba744cf 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv, const struct timezone *tz)
 		return error;
 
 	if (tz) {
-		/* SMP safe, global irq locking makes it work. */
 		sys_tz = *tz;
 		update_vsyscall_tz();
 		if (firsttime) {
@@ -173,12 +172,7 @@ int do_sys_settimeofday(const struct timespec *tv, const struct timezone *tz)
 		}
 	}
 	if (tv)
-	{
-		/* SMP safe, again the code in arch/foo/time.c should
-		 * globally block out interrupts when it runs.
-		 */
 		return do_settimeofday(tv);
-	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
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