linux-kernel - Re: [patch-mm 15/25] clocksource: add settimeofday hook for PPC

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Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:51:23 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Tony Breeds <tony@...eyournoodle.com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch-mm 15/25] clocksource: add settimeofday hook for PPC

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 10:36 +0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (clocksource-add-settimeofday-hook.patch)
> From: Tony Breeds <tony@...eyournoodle.com >
> 
> I'm working on a clocksource implementation for all powerpc platforms.
> some of these platforms needs to do a little work as part of the
> settimeofday() syscall and I can't see a way to do that without adding
> this hook to clocksource.
> 


I'd like to see how this is used? If the code that uses this API change
isn't ready yet, then this patch should really wait..

Daniel

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