Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mmtree

[Daniel Walker]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all
> > > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall.  This also eliminated
> > > some clocksource shuffling during bootup.
> > 
> > We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init
> > to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC.
> > 
> > John, can you please comment on this.
> 
> It also breaks pmtimer.

OGAWA reported this already. It breaks the case when there is a verified
read needed, instead of the fast read. I'll fix it.

Daniel

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