Re: + clocksource-add-generic-sched_clock.patch added to -mm tree

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Sun Oct 08 2006 - 10:46:55 EST


On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 11:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Adds a generic sched_clock, along with a boot time override for the scheduler
> > clocksource (sched_clocksource). Hopefully the config option would eventually
> > be removed.
>
> Again, this belongs into the clocksource code and not into sched.c
>
> Your patch series scatters clock source related code snippets all over
> the place. This becomes simply a maintenance nightmare.

It's an API, it's suppose to be used in different places.

Daniel

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