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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	lethal@linux-sh.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reentrant clock sources
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:07:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081126030720.GC8242@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811252215270.3235@localhost.localdomain>


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> > +	cycle_t (*vread)(struct clocksource *cs);
> 
> This is crap. vread can not access the clocksource.

i think 'reentrant' in the sense of creating self-sufficient driver 
entities. vread wont (and shouldnt) call ->vread() recursively - but 
it might want to access fields on the clocksource.

this way more dynamic clocksource drivers could be written. Am i 
missing something?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 13:28 [RFC] Reentrant clock sources Magnus Damm
2008-11-25 14:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-25 21:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26  3:07   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-11-26  3:20     ` john stultz
2008-11-26  3:52       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-26  5:21         ` Magnus Damm
2008-11-26  5:32   ` Magnus Damm

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