Re: + clocksource-update-kernel-parameters.patch added to -mm tree

[Daniel Walker]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 11:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Documents two new kernel parameters,
> > 
> > timeofday_clocksource
> > sched_clocksource
> >
> > Removed old ones,
> > 
> > clocksource
> > clock
> 
> NAK.
> 
> clocksource has just replaced clock. This hit mainline in 2.6.18.
> 
> 1. we can not remove "clock" without a grace perdiod
> 2. we can not change the just created new parameter clocksource again.

True, I've been thinking about this.. I was think I could deprecate
"clocksource" and "clock" but keep them around like John originally had.

Daniel

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