From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751222AbWJHPZh (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbWJHPZh (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:37 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:3771 "EHLO mail.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbWJHPZf (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:25:35 -0400 Subject: Re: + clocksource-update-kernel-parameters.patch added to -mm tree From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Daniel Walker Cc: akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, zippel@linux-m68k.org, LKML In-Reply-To: <1160318845.3693.15.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> References: <200610070153.k971rw7S020875@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1160301551.22911.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1160318845.3693.15.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:50:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1160319015.5686.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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