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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1306210953480.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:57:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] time: add a notifier chain for when the system time
 is stepped

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013, David Vrabel wrote:

> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> 
> The high resolution timer code gets notified of step changes to the
> system time with clock_was_set() or clock_was_set_delayed() calls.  If
> other parts of the kernel require similar notification there is no
> clear place to hook into.

You fail to explain why any other part of the kernel requires a
notification.
 
We went great length to confine timekeeping inside the core code and
now you add random notifiers along with totally ugly tasklet
constructs. What for?

Without a reasonable explanation of the problem you are trying to
solve this is going nowhere near the tree.

Thanks,

	tglx
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