Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261315AbTEQI5G (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 04:57:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261322AbTEQI5G (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 04:57:06 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:29511 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261315AbTEQI5F (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 04:57:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 09:09:51 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , Arjan van de Ven , john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Mosberger Subject: Re: time interpolation hooks Message-ID: <20030517090951.D31765@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20030516142311.3844ee97.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030516142311.3844ee97.akpm@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:23:11PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 15 On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:23:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I rather would have a "timer source" object that provides those 2 functions as methods, so that one can write "timer" drivers as more or less stand alone units that register themselves with the generic timekeeping unit (probably with an accuracy score so that the generic code can pick one in the event of multiple timer sources). For x86 I wrote an acpitimer "driver" last week (for 2.4) and it gets messy if you have those 2 functions as just independent function pointers .... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/