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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NET-NEXT 01/10] clocksource: allow usage independent of
	timekeeping.c
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:04:59 -0800
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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