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Message-Id: <1170256065.9781.19.camel@imap.mvista.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:07:45 -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, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/23] clocksource: rating sorted list On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:34 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > a rating change can occur due to other things as well, not only due to > 'tsc unstable' events. So keeping an API around that changes the rating > (and propagates all related changes), makes more sense to me. > > also, a pure function call is the most natural (and most flexible) API, > for a centrally registered resource like a clock source driver. And a > rating change should imply a reselect too, obviously. That way we > replace 2 lines with 1 line - that's a real API improvement and a real > cleanup patch. > > and that's precisely what Thomas' patch in -mm that your queue undoes > implements. (see: simplify-the-registration-of-clocksources.patch in > -mm) Have you considered Thomas' change when you dropped it? My patch set makes clocksource ratings constant (when fully applied). That particular function is dropped all together . Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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