Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:00:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] generic clocksource updates |
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Hi,
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:55 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > struct clocksource { > > char *name; > > @@ -58,11 +57,11 @@ struct clocksource { > > u32 mult; > > u32 shift; > > int (*update_callback)(void); > > - int is_continuous; > > This field was introduced to have a clear property description. The > rating field might be used for this, but from a given rating on a > particular CPU architecture it might be hard to deduce whether this > clock source is good enough so we can switch to high resolution timer > mode.
Currently this field isn't needed and as soon we have a need for it, we can add proper capability information.
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