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.
prev parent 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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