linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/15] clocksource: Let timekeeping

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Message-ID: <517F1249.4090906@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:37:30 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/15] clocksource: Let timekeeping_notify return success/error

On 04/25/2013 01:31 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> timekeeping_notify() can fail due cs->enable() failure. Though the
> caller does not notice and happily keeps the wrong clocksource as the
> current one.
>
> Let the caller know about failure, so the current clocksource will be
> shown correctly in sysfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner<tglx@...utronix.de>

Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>

thanks
-john

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