From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids.
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:01:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287424876.2758.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101018142748.GA5767@riccoc20.at.omicron.at>
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:27 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
> >
> > This patch augments the POSIX clock code to offer a dynamic clock
> > creation method. Instead of registering a hard coded clock ID, modules
> > may call create_posix_clock(), which returns a new clock ID.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
> >
> > This patch still has un-addressed lifetime issues pointed out by
> > Alan Cox. More work is needed here, but for now this provides the
> > functionality needed for the following patches.
>
> I am working on a fully dynamic clock implementation in the style
> suggested by Alan. Using it would change some details in this RTC
> patch series, but not the general idea.
>
> Should I post the dynamic clock stuff all by itself for review?
Yea, that'd be great!
thanks!
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-18 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-16 0:38 [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] A posix clock/timer interface to the RTC John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] [RFC] Introduce timerlist infrastructure John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] [RFC] hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use " John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] [RFC] RTC: Remove UIE emulation John Stultz
2010-10-16 0:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] [RFC] RTC: Add posix clock/timer interface John Stultz
2010-10-18 12:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] [RFC] RTC: Rework RTC code to use timerlist for events Alessandro Zummo
2010-10-19 1:34 ` john stultz
2010-10-18 14:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids Richard Cochran
2010-10-18 18:01 ` john stultz [this message]
2010-10-18 20:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
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