Re: + clocksource-increase-initcall-priority.patch added to -mm tree

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On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 07:50 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 10:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 18:53 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Since it's likely that this interface would get used during bootup I moved all
> > > > the clocksource registration into the postcore initcall.  This also eliminated
> > > > some clocksource shuffling during bootup.
> > > 
> > > We had the init call in postcore already. John moved it to module init
> > > to eliminate trouble with unsynced / unstable TSCs, IIRC.
> > > 
> > > John, can you please comment on this.
> > 
> > It also breaks pmtimer.
> 
> OGAWA reported this already. It breaks the case when there is a verified
> read needed, instead of the fast read. I'll fix it.

I'd like to know, why we need to move that and you did not explain _why_
it is likely that it is used during bootup.

	tglx


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