From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:17:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179170243.7074.13.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514115835.19be36d0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Urgh, that was probably me trying to manage the maelstrom from a million
> monkeys mucking in the same code for multiple months, sigh.
>
> So what do "broke" and "fix" mean in this context? What are the
> consequences of this bug, and of its fix? Is the above appropriate for
> 2.6.21.x and if so why?
clocksource_resume() is not called except from
unregister_time_interpolator(), which is definitely the wrong place.
No 2.6.21.x material, as the move of the timekeeping code happened after
2.6.21.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-14 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 9:10 [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-14 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 19:17 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-05-14 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-14 20:33 ` Andrew Morton
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