From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:41:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Support current clocksource handling in Message-Id: <1243539663.28705.99.camel@desktop> List-Id: References: <1243527218.28705.35.camel@desktop> <1243528329.6645.77.camel@laptop> <20090528164011.GA30104@linux-sh.org> <1243529547.28705.43.camel@desktop> <20090528165816.GA31688@linux-sh.org> <1243532324.28705.75.camel@desktop> <20090528175341.GA32118@linux-sh.org> <1243534252.28705.86.camel@desktop> <20090528182730.GA32767@linux-sh.org> <1243537463.28705.94.camel@desktop> <20090528193458.GA1122@linux-sh.org> In-Reply-To: <20090528193458.GA1122@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mundt Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Walleij , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Victor , Haavard Skinnemoen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, John Stultz On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 04:34 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > I'm still a little confused how kernel modules fit in here.. Are you > > saying a user would unload some certain driver which has a pin locked > > down and prevents the clocksource from working. Then the user would load > > the clocksource module which would now function, and that all would have > > to happen in order to enter a certain power state? > > > Yes. I'm assuming this isn't a low power state, this would be something more like suspend or hibernate right? Daniel