linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/10] -mm: clocksource: initialize list value

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Date:	Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:59:46 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] -mm: clocksource: initialize list value

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:54 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> plain text document attachment (clocksouce_list_init.patch)
> A change to clocksource initialization. It's optional for new clocksources,
> but prefered. If the list field is initialized it allows clocksource_register 
> to complete faster since it doesn't have the scan the list of clocks doing 
> strcmp on each.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>

I dont' have any comments that haven't been said:

Drop the CLOCKSOURCE_LIST_INIT define, and make it required. Its easy
enough to add.

thanks
-john



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