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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: malattia@linux.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time: Delay clocksource selection until later in boot
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:43:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060117154307.07f57bbb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137525365.27699.97.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 	Delay installing new clocksources until later in boot. This avoids some
> of the clocksource churn that can occur at boot, possibly allowing the
> system to run for a brief time with a bad clocksource.
> 
> This patch resolves the boot time stalls seen by Mattia Dongili.
> 

Except he now thinks that it doesn't.  Do you think the patch is good anyway?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17 19:16 [PATCH] Time: Delay clocksource selection until later in boot john stultz
2006-01-17 23:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-17 23:47   ` john stultz

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