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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] -mm: clocksource: increase initcall priority
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    Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> writes:

    > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 03:41 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
    >
    >> >>>
    >> >>> We'll need to change it.
    >> >>
    >> >> We can add a call to clocksource_rating_change() inside
    >> >> acpi_pm_need_workaround(), are there deeper dependencies?
    >> >
    >> > There is no deeper dependencies. If it's meaning
    >> > clocksource_reselect() in current git, it sounds good to me.
    >>
    >> Ah, I was forgetting why I didn't before. If it's a buggy pmtmr, we'll
    >> get corrupted time until re-selecting the clocksource.
    >>
    >> If anybody doesn't care this will be good with it. If not, we would
    >> need to back to old one. IIRC, John did it.
    >
    > We could just reverse it, use the verified read function until we know
    > it's a good PM timer, then switch to the faster read function.

    Yes, we did it in old timer code.
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    OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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