Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262349AbVCPKxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:53:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262356AbVCPKxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:53:49 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:30945 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262349AbVCPKxq (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:53:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:53:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: john stultz Cc: lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Ulrich Windl , Christoph Lameter , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Patricia Gaughen , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A3) Message-ID: <20050316105326.GA1348@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1110590655.30498.327.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <1110590710.30498.329.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050315225901.GB21143@elf.ucw.cz> <1110930129.30498.463.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <20050315234425.GH21292@elf.ucw.cz> <1110937497.30498.504.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1110937497.30498.504.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1171 Lines: 25 > > Changing its name is okay... your device probably will not have any > > user-accessible controls, right? > > Well, at some point I want to have some way for the user to be able to > select which timesource they want to be used. Similar to the current > "clock=" boot option override, there would be some sort of sysfs > timesource entry that users could "echo tsc" or whatever into in order > to force the system to use the tsc timesource at runtime. > > This however would be separate from the timeofday suspend/resume hooks, > so its probably not an issue. Let me know if I'm wrong. No, it should not be a problem. And yes, you could probably use same sysfs code to select timesource... Just make sure that name is stable before you publish that interface too much. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/