Re: [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 10:07:26 EST


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Move the generic timekeeping code from kernel/timer.c to
> > kernel/time/timekeeping.c. [...]
>
> please lets not do this just yet. While i have no problems with the
> change in theory, the time code is in high flux and it's easier to keep
> things sorted if we dont do big code movements. It also makes it harder
> to review things and it acts as a hard merge barrier. We usually do such
> move chunks of code in 'quiet periods', and now is definitely not such a
> period. It's also pretty easy to do.

I'm not opposed to waiting .. I do think this needs to go in eventually
tho .. This is a clean up that John requested, and I only added it
because I was making other changes to timekeeping.. So it's really his
call .

Daniel

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