Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] [RFC] posix clocks: dynamic clock ids. | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:01:16 -0700 |
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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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