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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids.
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On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:27 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> 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?

Yea, that'd be great!

thanks!
-john




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