Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:53:27 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday arch specific hooks (v. A3) |
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> > 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/
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