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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 16:50:04 -0700
From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/4] sched: Make ARM's sched_clock generic for all architectures
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On 05/31/2013 03:13 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 05/31, John Stultz wrote:
>> On 04/30/2013 05:54 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>> Here's the patch to make sched_clock generic. I didn't know
>>> where to put it so I just made a new file in kernel/sched
>>> for now.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>> Hey Stephen,
>>      Baruch just asked a question about moving arm's sched_clock.c to
>> be generic, and it sounded familiar, so I dug around and found this
>> mail from a few months ago.
>>
>> Just wanted to follow up and see what the status is with this? Is
>> this queued somewhere already?
>>
> As far as I know nothing has been queued. I refreshed the
> patchset against 3.10-rc2 but haven't sent it out since it wasn't
> clear if anyone wanted it. Shall I send it again?

Please. Even if it need an eventual deeper rework to be totally generic, 
I think we need to start moving things in that generic direction. 
Baruch's case is a clear example where non-arm code could share it, so I 
think that's at least a good proof point that sharing is actually needed 
(rather then just for theoretical reasons).

thanks
-john

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