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Message-ID: <aFI7Bz3gH6v2g77l@pie>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:05:27 +0000
From: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time.h: drop non-standard and out-of-date CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 10:10:32AM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> This definition was introduced in commit d74e462a ("add CLOCK_TAI (and
> CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE) clock ids to time.h added in linux-v3.10 commit
> 1ff3c9677bff7e468e0c487d0ffefe4e901d33f4"). However, it's actually a
> platform specific feature, available only on SGI SN2 IA64 systems. Its
> Linux support has been removed later in commit 07903ada9613
> ("mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver").
>
> Having this definition is known to cause applications misdetect the
> environment. There's no reason to keep a non-standard, seldom-available
> and removed-since-4.13-kernel macro in a standard header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
Ping on this patch, thanks for your time and review.
Best regards,
Yao Zi
> ---
>
> Changed from RFC v1
> - No changes, just resend as a formal patch ready for applying
> - Link to RFC v1: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2024/11/21/6
>
> include/time.h | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/time.h b/include/time.h
> index 3d948372..0fe02111 100644
> --- a/include/time.h
> +++ b/include/time.h
> @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ struct itimerspec {
> #define CLOCK_BOOTTIME 7
> #define CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM 8
> #define CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM 9
> -#define CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE 10
> #define CLOCK_TAI 11
>
> #define TIMER_ABSTIME 1
> --
> 2.49.0
>
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