linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 09:04:50 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:01:14AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We can require the driver to be built into the kernel, which seems pretty
> > reasonable for a timer.  It's only selectable on IA64 anyway.
> 
> That still requires that we "register" the clock as it's SN2 specific and
> we don't want to end up with a non initialized clock ....

I'd much rather have a call to mmtimer_init from the core clock
code than having to conditionally export the array..

But maybe we can actually drop the mmtimer now - IA64-based Altix
systems haven't been built for a while and anyone requiring its
special clock will run a distro of sorts anyway.