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Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const
Date 2017-05-23 09:10 +0200
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:01:14AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We can require the driver to be built into the kernel, which seems pretty
> > reasonable for a timer.  It's only selectable on IA64 anyway.
> 
> That still requires that we "register" the clock as it's SN2 specific and
> we don't want to end up with a non initialized clock ....

I'd much rather have a call to mmtimer_init from the core clock
code than having to conditionally export the array..

But maybe we can actually drop the mmtimer now - IA64-based Altix
systems haven't been built for a while and anyone requiring its
special clock will run a distro of sorts anyway.

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[PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-23 00:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-23 06:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2017-05-23 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: mark all struct k_clock instances const Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-05-23 09:10 +0200

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