From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261768AbUKIXto (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:49:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261794AbUKIXtP (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:49:15 -0500 Received: from fmr01.intel.com ([192.55.52.18]:49805 "EHLO hermes.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261791AbUKIXst convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:48:49 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: /sys/devices/system/timer registered twice Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:48:33 -0800 Message-ID: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB60034D6FB9@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: /sys/devices/system/timer registered twice Thread-Index: AcTGthsW7qtCDrHbQvay1OWhHZ+27wAACWkA From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" To: "Greg KH" Cc: , "Kay Sievers" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Nov 2004 23:48:34.0824 (UTC) FILETIME=[A041F080:01C4C6B6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >-----Original Message----- >From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] >Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:44 PM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: dtor_core@ameritech.net; Kay Sievers; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: /sys/devices/system/timer registered twice > >On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:41:51PM -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: >> >> But, do we really need two system devices for timers?. I feel >> we can call setup_pit_timer from time.c, whenever pit is being used. >> Otherwise, we may have more issues like the order in which these >> two resumes are called and the like. > >I have no idea. Why not work this out with the other system device >authors, as it's obvious people will have both of them loaded at the >same time. > Agreed. We can change the name of the one in timer_pit.c to timer_pit for now. That will fix the immediate breakage. I will try to come up with a patch to combine the two, soon. Thanks, Venki