Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mmtree

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Oct 08 2006 - 06:15:53 EST


On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all
> > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall. This also eliminated
> > some clocksource shuffling during bootup.
>
> We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init
> to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC.
>
> John, can you please comment on this.

It also breaks pmtimer.

tglx


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