linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] timekeeping: Use syscore_ops instead of sysdev class and sysdev

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1103131455320.2787@localhost6.localdomain6>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:56:52 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...e.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] timekeeping: Use syscore_ops instead of sysdev class
 and sysdev

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> 
> The timekeeping subsystem uses a sysdev class and a sysdev for
> executing timekeeping_suspend() after interrupts have been turned off
> on the boot CPU (during system suspend) and for executing
> timekeeping_resume() before turning on interrupts on the boot CPU
> (during system resume).  However, since both of these functions
> ignore their arguments, the entire mechanism may be replaced with a
> struct syscore_ops object which is simpler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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