From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:50:28 +0000 Subject: Re: final [hopefully] timer patches Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, David Mosberger wrote: > The fsys.S portion of the patch still doesn't apply. I think that's > because your missing Ken's fix for fsys_gettimeofday() that went in > recently. The patch is against 2.6.8-rc1 which does not contain Ken's patch. I can make a patch against your tree if you think its ready to get in. > Also, it would be good if the common code for fsys_gettimeofday() and > fsys_clock_get() could be factored (into a macro, probably, since you > can't use the standard calling convention without switching to kernel > stacks first). Doing so is quite an unusual approach. I thought it was better to leave things the way it is. I tried doing a subroutine but that resulted in a lot of complications with saving state.