Re: [PATCH] timekeeping fix mismerge

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon May 14 2007 - 15:14:11 EST


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Urgh, that was probably me trying to manage the maelstrom from a million
> monkeys mucking in the same code for multiple months, sigh.
>
> So what do "broke" and "fix" mean in this context? What are the
> consequences of this bug, and of its fix? Is the above appropriate for
> 2.6.21.x and if so why?

clocksource_resume() is not called except from
unregister_time_interpolator(), which is definitely the wrong place.

No 2.6.21.x material, as the move of the timekeeping code happened after
2.6.21.

tglx


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