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

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:47 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 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.

We really do not need another set of those. clocksource and
sched_clocksource is perfectly fine

	tglx


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