The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 8a7a8e1eab929eb3a5b735a788a23b9731139046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:49:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] timekeeping: Eliminate the stale declaration of
ktime_get_raw_and_real_ts64()
Commit ba26621e63ce got rid of ktime_get_raw_and_real_ts64(), but left its
declaration behind.
Remove it.
Fixes: ba26621e63ce ("time: Remove duplicated code in ktime_get_raw_and_real()")
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christopher S. Hall <christopher.s.hall@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: arnd@xxxxxxxx
Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510552144-20831-1-git-send-email-douly.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/include/linux/timekeeping.h b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
index 0021575fe871..51293e1aa4da 100644
--- a/include/linux/timekeeping.h
+++ b/include/linux/timekeeping.h
@@ -272,12 +272,6 @@ extern bool timekeeping_rtc_skipresume(void);
extern void timekeeping_inject_sleeptime64(struct timespec64 *delta);
-/*
- * PPS accessor
- */
-extern void ktime_get_raw_and_real_ts64(struct timespec64 *ts_raw,
- struct timespec64 *ts_real);
-
/*
* struct system_time_snapshot - simultaneous raw/real time capture with
* counter value