Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756984AbYFIWE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752709AbYFIWEV (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:04:21 -0400 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:58463 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752668AbYFIWEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:04:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:04:13 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , zippel@linux-m68k.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NTP: Let update_persistent_clock() sleep Message-ID: <20080610000413.0de0bc41@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <20080609145923.fe5dc86d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080528201612.d2641dc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080609145923.fe5dc86d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 40 On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:59:23 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > Are there any objections to the patch under discussion? > > Thanks. > > > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" > > This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process > context. This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may > be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices. > > Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Roman Zippel > Cc: Rik van Riel > Cc: Alessandro Zummo > Cc: David Brownell > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > --- Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- 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/