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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/23] clocksource: drop duplicate register checking

    * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

    > This is something Thomas already dropped, [...]

    (i think you forgot to Cc: Thomas here, nor is this something that
    Thomas' change dropped.)

    > [...] and I'm just sticking with that .. If you register your
    > clocksource _twice_ your kernel will likely not work correctly (and
    > might crash).

    this is a quite bad change. John's original clocksource code protects
    against double registry:

    if (is_registered_source(c)) {
    printk("register_clocksource: Cannot register %s. "
    "Already registered!", c->name);
    ret = -EBUSY;

    and Thomas' change keeps that property, but doesnt printk. Your change
    makes double registry possible, potentially crashing the kernel later
    on! (And this isnt theoretical, double registry did happen in practice
    when i debugged suspend problems on my SMP laptop.)

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