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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:01:23 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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To: Magnus Lynch <maglyx@gmail.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpet: factor timer allocate from open
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Magnus Lynch wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>> If so I can change that. I did add the explicit form of allocating
>>> timers to accomodate such a case hypothetically (open, allocate timer,
>>> get info).
>>
>> This wouldn't be backwards compatible.
> 
> OK, here's a version that retains HPET_INFO semantics.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Lynch <maglyx@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>