From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932244AbXDAIny (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:43:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932267AbXDAIny (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:43:54 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:40704 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932244AbXDAInx (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:43:53 -0400 Subject: Re: + clocksource-driver-initialize-list-value.patch added to -mm tree From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, LKML In-Reply-To: <200704010523.l315NXJP004063@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <200704010523.l315NXJP004063@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:43:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1175417035.28263.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 22:23 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > The patch titled > clocksource: driver initialize list value > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > clocksource-driver-initialize-list-value.patch > > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** > > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find > out what to do about this > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Subject: clocksource: driver initialize list value > From: Daniel Walker > > Update drivers/clocksource/ with list initialization. As others pointed out already, can we please have some usefull description why this change is necessary ? i.e. that it is a preparatory patch to simplify the clocksource registration logic. tglx