Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs
From: john stultz
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 20:48:20 EST
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:16 -0400, Brian Bloniarz wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 09:33 PM, Brian Bloniarz wrote:
> > So what's wrong with just adding a
> > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/tsc_khz?
>
> As an RFC:
>
> Add clocksource.sys_register & sys_unregister so the
> current clocksource can add supplemental information to
> /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/
>
> Export tsc_khz when current_clocksource==tsc so that
> daemons like NTP can account for the variability of
> calibration results.
I think this is a bad idea, as it creates an ABI that is arch AND
machine specific, which will cause portability problems in applications
that expect the interface to be there.
thanks
-john
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