linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line disciplines.

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Message-ID: <20080820140536.GS21330@tekkaman>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:05:36 +0200
From:	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line
	disciplines.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> well, i didnt suggest you kill that aspect of the patchset - i suggested 

I see, but I agree with Alan that is better to get a first working
inclusion and then working on improments. 8)

> you change it to hook into kernel/irq/*.c instead of 
> arch/x86/kernel/irq*.c.
> 
> That way all other architectures will benefit from it, not just x86. 
> Doing an x86-only thing for such features is completely unacceptable.

I see but doing like this I can record IRQs timestamps sooner than in
kernel/irq/*.c, is that right? PPS precision is as better as sooner we
record the timestamps.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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