Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A3)

[Pavel Machek]

> > Changing its name is okay... your device probably will not have any
> > user-accessible controls, right?
> 
> Well, at some point I want to have some way for the user to be able to
> select which timesource they want to be used. Similar to the current
> "clock=" boot option override, there would be some sort of sysfs
> timesource entry that users could "echo tsc" or whatever into in order
> to force the system to use the tsc timesource at runtime.
> 
> This however would be separate from the timeofday suspend/resume hooks,
> so its probably not an issue. Let me know if I'm wrong.

No, it should not be a problem. And yes, you could probably use same
sysfs code to select timesource... Just make sure that name is stable
before you publish that interface too much.
								Pavel
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