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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:04:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170523070450.GA17926@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1705230900150.2740@nanos>

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:01:14AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We can require the driver to be built into the kernel, which seems pretty
> > reasonable for a timer.  It's only selectable on IA64 anyway.
> 
> That still requires that we "register" the clock as it's SN2 specific and
> we don't want to end up with a non initialized clock ....

I'd much rather have a call to mmtimer_init from the core clock
code than having to conditionally export the array..

But maybe we can actually drop the mmtimer now - IA64-based Altix
systems haven't been built for a while and anyone requiring its
special clock will run a distro of sorts anyway.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-23  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-15 20:32 [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-22 22:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-23  4:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-23  7:01     ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-23  7:04       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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