On 23 November 2014 at 13:31, Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 22 November 2014 at 21:20, JWP <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> So, I noticed when *fdisk were rewritten that some antiquated >> code was dropped. I would like some opinions on whether this >> should be done when refactoring hwclock. >> >> For example, do we need a workaround for the 1994 Award BIOS >> bug? > > I agree with Benno, it is time to say goodbye to that code. > >> Do we need Alpha code? Is there a Linux distro that >> still officially supports Alpha machines? > > I'm not sure if there is any up to date distribution for Alpha. Kernel > crew seems to still care alpha, so it is not completely dead. > > http://marc.info/?t=140518903000002&r=1&w=2 > > Maybe the question should be rephrased. How about dropping the Alpha > cmos support? It looks like Alpha has rtc support. > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c > >> Any other ideas regarding this topic are welcome. > > Removal of i386 references should be safe. > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-3-8-Says-Goodbye-to-i386-314293.shtml > > Since there is no other than Alpha & i386 references to cmos code, all > of it is subject for removal. JWP, It's a rainy day here, so I decided to make initial attempt to remove cmos & --badyear. Maybe something like these are what you are thinking of. https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/fa8825f77996dfad39bd09240729287706f6e72f https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/74edf1aa9c16d351e9fdb25a961ec1932c60c674 After a clean up like that there is still tons to do. For example this snippet here /* * struct rtc_time is present since 1.3.99. * Earlier (since 1.3.89), a struct tm was used. */ is screaming obsolete. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
