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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
>
> This patch augments the POSIX clock code to offer a dynamic clock
> creation method. Instead of registering a hard coded clock ID, modules
> may call create_posix_clock(), which returns a new clock ID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
>
> This patch still has un-addressed lifetime issues pointed out by
> Alan Cox. More work is needed here, but for now this provides the
> functionality needed for the following patches.

I am working on a fully dynamic clock implementation in the style
suggested by Alan. Using it would change some details in this RTC
patch series, but not the general idea.

Should I post the dynamic clock stuff all by itself for review?

(The entire patch series including the PTP hardware clocks will take
a bit longer.)

Richard


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