From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu,
zippel@linux-m68k.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + clocksource-update-kernel-parameters.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:50:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160319015.5686.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160318845.3693.15.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:47 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 11:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > > Documents two new kernel parameters,
> > >
> > > timeofday_clocksource
> > > sched_clocksource
> > >
> > > Removed old ones,
> > >
> > > clocksource
> > > clock
> >
> > NAK.
> >
> > clocksource has just replaced clock. This hit mainline in 2.6.18.
> >
> > 1. we can not remove "clock" without a grace perdiod
> > 2. we can not change the just created new parameter clocksource again.
>
> True, I've been thinking about this.. I was think I could deprecate
> "clocksource" and "clock" but keep them around like John originally had.
We really do not need another set of those. clocksource and
sched_clocksource is perfectly fine
tglx
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2006-10-08 9:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 14:47 ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 14:50 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
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