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Message-Id: <1175752953.28263.374.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:02:33 +0200 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 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 17:34 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > 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.. And it does not gain anything. So what's the gain of this ? Nine useless entries in the changelog. tglx - 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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