Re: [PATCH 00/10][RFC] Increased clocksource validation and cleanups

[Richard Cochran]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 04:34:18PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> So this series is the result of earlier discussions with Linus
> and his suggestions around improvements to clocksource validation
> in the hope we can more easily catch bad hardware.

Why penalize most users just because of a random hardware failure?
Why not make the "catching code" a compile time option?

Thanks,
Richard

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