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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com,
	mingo@elte.hu, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + clocksource-initialize-list-value.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:07:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160320043.3000.178.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160318579.3693.8.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:42 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 11:50 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > > A change to clocksource initialization.  It's optional for new clocksources,
> > > but prefered.  If the list field is initialized it allows clocksource_register
> > > to complete faster since it doesn't have the scan the list of clocks doing
> > > strcmp on each.
> > 
> > Either make it required or not.
> 
> This is for compatability with all those clocksources people are writing
> that just haven't been released (assuming they will be eventually
> released). I would love to make this required.

so do it. The ones that are in development are easily fixed and
consistency is worth a LOT in terms of API. Bonus points if the kernel
printk's a helpful message on abuse.




  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-08 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200610070153.k971rsDf020869@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-10-08  9:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-10-08 14:42   ` Daniel Walker
2006-10-08 15:07     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-10-08 15:13       ` Daniel Walker

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