linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

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Message-ID: <87d594qa4o.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>
Date:	Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:00:23 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority

Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 00:40 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
>> > +++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
>> > @@ -174,4 +174,4 @@ pm_good:
>> >  	return clocksource_register(&clocksource_acpi_pm);
>> >  }
>> >  
>> > -module_init(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);
>> > +postcore_initcall(init_acpi_pm_clocksource);
>> 
>> Current code is assumeing DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY() is called before
>> init_acpi_pm_clocksource().
>> 
>> We'll need to change it.
>
> We can add a call to clocksource_rating_change() inside
> acpi_pm_need_workaround(), are there deeper dependencies?

There is no deeper dependencies.  If it's meaning
clocksource_reselect() in current git, it sounds good to me.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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