Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Implement {read,update}_persistent_clock.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:19:03 +1000

>    Eh... poor you. Tony got clockevent driver reengineered for no apparent 
> reason.  And he's introduced the jiffy drift by deleting the main loop from 
> timer_interrupt(). Yet this borken version was preferred to what was known 
> working since about 2.6.18 and included into 2.6.21-rt patchset.  I don't like 
> that policy. Will you be pushing fixes from -rt to PowerPC, or will it fall on 
> my shoulders now?

Possibly because whatever implementation existed before was never
provided in a mergeable form and pushed to -rt bypassing the powerpc
architecture maintainer ?

Ben.