Re: [RFC][patch 00/12] clocksource / timekeeping rework V2

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:34:37 -0700
Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 19:09 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:02:21 -0600
> > dwalker@fifo99.com wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 18:50 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > > 
> > > > void clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating)
> > > 
> > > > the two functions do different things. What exactly is the idea you've
> > > > got in mind?
> > > 
> > > It's only the case when the rating goes to zero .. That makes the
> > > clocksource unusable, which is very much like unregistering it..
> > 
> > True, the clocksource code won't pick the clock any more as long as
> > there is an alternative clock available. It still shows up in the list
> > of clocks though and you can do an override with it. 
> 
> Now that you mention it, if the clocks are sorted by rating (something
> your removing) then the sysfs override available listing isn't in rated
> order .. So if you do have zero rated clocks you wouldn't have any idea
> from looking at the available list.. It could be solved just by printing
> them in rated order in the sysfs code tho.

Ok, I'll readd the sorting. It is a user visible change after all.

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   Martin.

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