Re: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids.

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 16:45:05 EST


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Richard Cochran wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch augments the POSIX clock code to offer a dynamic clock
> > creation method. Instead of registering a hard coded clock ID, modules
> > may call create_posix_clock(), which returns a new clock ID.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch still has un-addressed lifetime issues pointed out by
> > Alan Cox. More work is needed here, but for now this provides the
> > functionality needed for the following patches.
>
> I am working on a fully dynamic clock implementation in the style
> suggested by Alan. Using it would change some details in this RTC
> patch series, but not the general idea.
>
> Should I post the dynamic clock stuff all by itself for review?

Incremental is preferred. We all know by now what it's going to be
used for.

Thanks,

tglx
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