Re: [PATCH 04/10] -mm: clocksource: add some new API calls

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:54 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> plain text document attachment (clocksource_user_api.patch)
> originally used plist but removed it in this patch, and used a sorted list 
> which is just as fast with a lot less memory overhead.
> 
> Introduces some new API calls,
> 
> - clocksource_get_clock()
> 	Allows a clock lookup by name.
> - clocksource_rating_change()
> 	Used by a clocksource to signal a rating change. Replaces 
> 	reselect_clocksource()

Adds ns2cyc interface. Just to keep things in logical chunks, maybe
would that chunk be better added with the patch that uses it?

> I also moved the the clock source list to a plist, which removes some lookup
> overhead in the average case.

Probably need to update the header, as you don't use a plist now. :)


> Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>


Otherwise this patch looks like a good cleanup to me.

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

thanks
-john