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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:04:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233781499.15119.135.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233777982.6994.51.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:06 -0800, john stultz wrote:

> The duplication is only at a very low level. He could not reuse the
> established clocksource system without really breaking its semantics.

He gave a link to the first version,

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/11/19/4164204

What specific semantics is he breaking there? 

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 13:01 clock synchronization utility code Patrick Ohly
2009-02-04 13:01 ` [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c Patrick Ohly
2009-02-04 13:01   ` [PATCH NET-NEXT 02/10] time sync: generic infrastructure to map between time stamps generated by a time counter and system time Patrick Ohly
2009-02-04 19:44     ` john stultz
2009-02-05 10:21       ` Patrick Ohly
2009-02-09 17:02         ` Patrick Ohly
2009-02-09 19:27           ` John Stultz
2009-02-09 21:46             ` Patrick Ohly
2009-02-09 21:54               ` John Stultz
2009-02-09 22:57             ` David Miller
2009-02-04 14:03   ` [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c Daniel Walker
2009-02-04 14:46     ` Patrick Ohly
2009-02-04 15:09       ` Daniel Walker
2009-02-04 15:24         ` Patrick Ohly
2009-02-04 19:25         ` john stultz
2009-02-04 19:40           ` Daniel Walker
2009-02-04 20:06             ` john stultz
2009-02-04 21:04               ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-02-04 21:15                 ` john stultz
2009-02-05  0:18                   ` Daniel Walker
2009-02-05 10:21                     ` Patrick Ohly
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-12 14:57 [PATCH NET-NEXT 0/10] hardware time stamping with new fields in shinfo Patrick Ohly
2009-02-12 15:00 ` [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c Patrick Ohly
2009-02-12 15:03 [PATCH NET-NEXT 0/10] hardware time stamping with new fields in shinfo Patrick Ohly
2009-02-12 15:03 ` [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of timekeeping.c Patrick Ohly

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