[GIT PULL] Remove ARM local timer API

[Olof Johansson]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Olof/Arnd,
>
> These patches remove the ARM local timer API. The ARM architected
> timers have already moved away from this API so this series
> migrates the rest of the users allowing us to remove the API
> entirely. Thomas has been kind enough to take the first two
> patches into timers/core in the tip tree (thanks Thomas!) so I've
> merged that into v3.10-rc1 and then applied the rest of the
> patches on top. Let me know if this is acceptable.
>
> These patches have been through multiple rounds and tested by
> multiple people since before the 3.10 merge window closed. Only
> Barry's ack is missing (Cced).
>
> Since I don't have a tree on kernel.org, David Brown has been
> kind enough to push my tag out to his repo. Please pull.
>
> The following changes since commit 42cba6e27c4cddc4df701c597dbfa666e1c013c8:
>
>   Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into remove-local-timers (2013-06-24 17:45:02 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davidb/linux-msm.git tags/remove-local-timers
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 060fd3043e5e3488504b9e70182e188dd9113aea:
>
>   ARM: smp: Remove local timer API (2013-06-24 17:47:34 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Now that we have a generic arch hook for broadcast we can remove the local
> timer API entirely. Doing so will reduce code in ARM core, reduce the
> architecture dependencies of our timer drivers, and simplify the code because
> we no longer go through an architecture layer that is essentially a hotplug
> notifier.

Hi,

Merged in as localtimer/removal into next/cleanup.

I had quite a few merge conflicts due to the __cpuinit removal, so
please double-check my resolutions.


-Olof