Re: [RFC] Reentrant clock sources

[Ingo Molnar]

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +	cycle_t (*vread)(struct clocksource *cs);
> 
> This is crap. vread can not access the clocksource.

i think 'reentrant' in the sense of creating self-sufficient driver 
entities. vread wont (and shouldnt) call ->vread() recursively - but 
it might want to access fields on the clocksource.

this way more dynamic clocksource drivers could be written. Am i 
missing something?

	Ingo
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