From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757586Ab0JRSBh (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:01:37 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:33374 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754540Ab0JRSBg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:01:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids. From: john stultz To: Richard Cochran Cc: LKML , Richard Cochran , Alessandro Zummo , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20101018142748.GA5767@riccoc20.at.omicron.at> 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:01:16 -0700 Message-ID: <1287424876.2758.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:27 +0200, 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? Yea, that'd be great! thanks! -john