Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261352AbTEQJ5V (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 05:57:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261355AbTEQJ5V (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 05:57:21 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:27008 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbTEQJ5V (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 May 2003 05:57:21 -0400 Subject: Re: time interpolation hooks From: "David S. Miller" To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Arjan van de Ven , john stultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Mosberger In-Reply-To: <16069.24454.349874.198470@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <20030516142311.3844ee97.akpm@digeo.com> <16069.24454.349874.198470@napali.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1053139080.7308.6.camel@rth.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 16 May 2003 19:38:01 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 15:00, David Mosberger wrote: > Andrew> (Those function pointers should go away in favour of > Andrew> optionally-stubbed-out static calls. Minor point). > > Really? On ia64, we want to use cycle-based interpolation by default, > but if firmware indicates that the cycle-counters may drift, we want > to switch to one of several possible external counters (which counter > gets used depends on hardware/drivers are is present). I think Andrew is really suggesting to declare these two things in an arch header, so if one needs it to be a function pointer one can make it so. -- David S. Miller - 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/