From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
albert@users.sourceforge.net,
Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>,
David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
keith maanthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
Patricia Gaughen <gone@us.ibm.com>,
Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>, Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>,
mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
donf@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A3)
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:53:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050316105326.GA1348@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110937497.30498.504.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>
> > Changing its name is okay... your device probably will not have any
> > user-accessible controls, right?
>
> Well, at some point I want to have some way for the user to be able to
> select which timesource they want to be used. Similar to the current
> "clock=" boot option override, there would be some sort of sysfs
> timesource entry that users could "echo tsc" or whatever into in order
> to force the system to use the tsc timesource at runtime.
>
> This however would be separate from the timeofday suspend/resume hooks,
> so its probably not an issue. Let me know if I'm wrong.
No, it should not be a problem. And yes, you could probably use same
sysfs code to select timesource... Just make sure that name is stable
before you publish that interface too much.
Pavel
--
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-16 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-12 1:24 [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem " john stultz
2005-03-12 1:25 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks " john stultz
2005-03-12 1:26 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific timesource drivers " john stultz
2005-03-12 5:52 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-14 18:09 ` john stultz
2005-03-15 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-15 23:42 ` john stultz
2005-03-15 23:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-16 1:44 ` john stultz
2005-03-16 10:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-03-13 0:49 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem " Matt Mackall
2005-03-13 1:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-14 18:42 ` john stultz
2005-03-14 19:29 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-14 19:43 ` john stultz
2005-03-14 19:51 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-14 20:04 ` john stultz
2005-03-14 20:27 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 0:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-15 2:16 ` Albert Cahalan
2005-03-15 3:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-15 15:23 ` Albert Cahalan
2005-03-15 15:52 ` Chris Friesen
2005-03-17 16:55 ` Russell King
2005-03-17 19:44 ` Albert Cahalan
2005-03-17 20:28 ` Russell King
2005-03-15 0:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-15 0:43 ` john stultz
2005-03-14 23:40 ` George Anzinger
2005-03-15 1:11 ` [topic change] jiffies as a time value john stultz
2005-03-15 23:01 ` George Anzinger
2005-03-16 3:57 ` john stultz
2005-03-15 0:07 ` [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A3) Christoph Lameter
2005-03-15 5:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-03-15 18:25 ` john stultz
2005-03-15 22:08 ` George Anzinger
2005-03-17 8:15 ` Ulrich Windl
2005-03-15 6:09 ` Christoph Lameter
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20050316105326.GA1348@elf.ucw.cz \
--to=pavel@suse.cz \
--cc=ak@suse.de \
--cc=albert@users.sourceforge.net \
--cc=anton@samba.org \
--cc=clameter@sgi.com \
--cc=darren@dvhart.com \
--cc=davidm@hpl.hp.com \
--cc=djwong@us.ibm.com \
--cc=donf@us.ibm.com \
--cc=george@mvista.com \
--cc=gone@us.ibm.com \
--cc=johnstul@us.ibm.com \
--cc=kmannth@us.ibm.com \
--cc=lcm@us.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux@dominikbrodowski.de \
--cc=mahuja@us.ibm.com \
--cc=masbock@us.ibm.com \
--cc=nacc@us.ibm.com \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
--cc=schwidefsky@de.ibm.com \
--cc=tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de \
--cc=ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome