Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:56:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>,
        Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
        Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, mingo@redhat.com,
        Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
        Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] timekeeping: Use syscore_ops instead of sysdev class
 and sysdev
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> The timekeeping subsystem uses a sysdev class and a sysdev for
> executing timekeeping_suspend() after interrupts have been turned off
> on the boot CPU (during system suspend) and for executing
> timekeeping_resume() before turning on interrupts on the boot CPU
> (during system resume).  However, since both of these functions
> ignore their arguments, the entire mechanism may be replaced with a
> struct syscore_ops object which is simpler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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