Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] x86/time: introduce command line option to select wallclock

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 05:07:55PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 09:59:06AM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > Allow setting the used wallclock from the command line.  When the option is 
> > set
> > to a value different than `auto` the probing is bypassed and the selected
> > implementation is used (as long as it's available).
> > 
> > The `xen` and `efi` options require being booted as a Xen guest (with Xen 
> > guest
> > supported built-in) or from UEFI firmware respectively.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the review.

Oleksii, can I get your opinion as Release Manager about whether this
(and the following patch) would be suitable for committing to staging
given the current release state?

It's a workaround for broken EFI implementations that many downstreams
carry on their patch queue.

Thanks, Roger.