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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:34:39 -0700 From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tglx@...utronix.de, johnstul@...ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com Subject: Re: + clocksource-driver-initialize-list-value.patch added to -mm tree On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 17:20 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Daniel Walker wrote: > > Setting CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS is largely administration , do you > > know what that flag means? > > > > Sure, but at least it has something to do with clocks and time. > > > list values and list initialization are hardly internal details , they > > are commonly used all over the kernel. > > > > The fact that a list is used to string together clocksource structures > is an internal detail of the clock subsystem. It's annoying that there > has to be a list head in the clocksource structure, but at least as a > clocksource implementer I can ignore it, and if it ever gets changed to > something else I can keep ignoring it. Your change makes it something > that gets pointlessly replicated all over the kernel. It's already been discussed in the past, but the clocksource structure is already very simple.. Adding a list initializer doesn't change anything.. 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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