[patch 00/16] arm: Replace arm sched_clock by clocksource based sched_clock

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sun Apr 24 03:27:31 EDT 2011


2011/4/23 Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>:

> Most of ARM sched_clocks is using the timekeeping clocksource as the
> sched_clock. Only versatile uses a different clock for it, but there
> is no real reason why it can't use the clocksource as well.

Excellent patch set!

> Another 650 lines gone :)

Any reason why we can't simply move *all* of these to
drivers/clocksource/* and proceed with consolidation there?

It must be a pain having to grep through the tree to find all of
these (even though I bet you know them all by heart now).

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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