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* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > The pit clocksource could be dropped pretty easy with my clocksource > update patches, which I'm still working on but you could easily drop > clock sources that aren't atomic like the pit .. Also the pit is > generally undesirable, so it's not going to be missed. that's totally unacceptable, and i'm amazed you are even suggesting it - often the PIT ends up being the most reliable hardware clock in a PC. Btw., what's wrong with the spinlock that is protecting PIT access? It expresses the non-atomic property of the PIT just fine. Ingo - 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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