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2010/3/11 Shiraz HASHIM <shiraz.hashim@st.com>:

> Can we use clockevents directly? I though they are abstracted by the kernel
> framework and using them directly is not advisable/feasible.

Not that I know, but as tglx says it might soon be possible to do so, and if
you have a patch for using some surplus clockevents for this along with some
example of it actually being used too, people will probably react,
atleast they will have opinions.

Yours,
Linus Walleij