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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle•com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista•com>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us•ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] clocksouce implementation for powerpc
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467BC398.1000506@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070622061047.GW9768@bakeyournoodle.com>

Tony Breeds wrote:

> 	Thanks for taking the time to look over my patch.

>>   I guess it's been based on the prior work by John Stultz (and me too :-)?

> At some level I guess so.  John did send me a patch a while ago.

>>   If you mean the init. part, this has been already done by me -- I've 
>>implemented read_persistent_clock() and got rid of xtime setting. What's 
>>left is to implemet update_persistent_clock() and get rid of 
>>timer_check_rtc()...

> Actually I think that comment is redundant.  and should be removed
> sorry.

    I guess you haven't looked thru the -rt patch? There's much more than 
John's initial patch there now, including the clockevents driver.

>>>+	.mult         = 0,	/* To be filled in */
>>>+	.read         = NULL,   /* To be filled in */
>>>+	.settimeofday = NULL,   /* To be filled in */
>>
>>   I don't quite understand why not just init them right away?  The values 
>>are fixed anyways.

> Well at least mult needs to be calculated at runtime, and I prefer to

    I was talking about the method intializers specifically.

> have the structure near the top of the file at which stage the
> read/settimeofday functions aren't defined.

    I don't think it's justified anyway.

> Yours Tony

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070616101126.296384219@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de>
     [not found] ` <20070616101637.107940593@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de>
     [not found]   ` <1182009083.11539.369.camel@imap.mvista.com>
2007-06-20  6:57     ` [RFC] clocksouce implementation for powerpc Tony Breeds
2007-06-20 14:57       ` Daniel Walker
2007-06-20 17:20         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-20 17:31           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-06-20 18:11             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-22  6:23         ` Tony Breeds
2007-06-20 16:53       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-22  6:10         ` Tony Breeds
2007-06-22 12:42           ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-06-20 21:06       ` john stultz
2007-06-22  6:28         ` Tony Breeds

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