linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c

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Message-Id: <1170255927.9781.15.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:05:27 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> wrote:
> 
> > Move the generic timekeeping code from kernel/timer.c to 
> > kernel/time/timekeeping.c. [...]
> 
> please lets not do this just yet. While i have no problems with the 
> change in theory, the time code is in high flux and it's easier to keep 
> things sorted if we dont do big code movements. It also makes it harder 
> to review things and it acts as a hard merge barrier. We usually do such 
> move chunks of code in 'quiet periods', and now is definitely not such a 
> period. It's also pretty easy to do.

I'm not opposed to waiting .. I do think this needs to go in eventually
tho .. This is a clean up that John requested, and I only added it
because I was making other changes to timekeeping.. So it's really his
call .

Daniel

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