From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755310Ab0JRUpA (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:45:00 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:33236 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754759Ab0JRUo7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:44:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:44:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Richard Cochran cc: John Stultz , LKML , Richard Cochran , Alessandro Zummo Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids. In-Reply-To: <20101018142748.GA5767@riccoc20.at.omicron.at> Message-ID: References: <1287189535-24649-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <1287189535-24649-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> <20101018142748.GA5767@riccoc20.at.omicron.at> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0700, John Stultz wrote: > > From: Richard Cochran > > > > This patch augments the POSIX clock code to offer a dynamic clock > > creation method. Instead of registering a hard coded clock ID, modules > > may call create_posix_clock(), which returns a new clock ID. > > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran > > > > This patch still has un-addressed lifetime issues pointed out by > > Alan Cox. More work is needed here, but for now this provides the > > functionality needed for the following patches. > > I am working on a fully dynamic clock implementation in the style > suggested by Alan. Using it would change some details in this RTC > patch series, but not the general idea. > > Should I post the dynamic clock stuff all by itself for review? Incremental is preferred. We all know by now what it's going to be used for. Thanks, tglx