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Message-Id: <1243539663.28705.99.camel@desktop>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 12:41:03 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in
	fallback sched_clock().

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 04:34 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > I'm still a little confused how kernel modules fit in here.. Are you
> > saying a user would unload some certain driver which has a pin locked
> > down and prevents the clocksource from working. Then the user would load
> > the clocksource module which would now function, and that all would have
> > to happen in order to enter a certain power state?
> > 
> Yes.

I'm assuming this isn't a low power state, this would be something more
like suspend or hibernate right?

Daniel

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