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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Time: Delay clocksource selection until later in boot
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john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 	Delay installing new clocksources until later in boot. This avoids some
> of the clocksource churn that can occur at boot, possibly allowing the
> system to run for a brief time with a bad clocksource.
> 
> This patch resolves the boot time stalls seen by Mattia Dongili.
> 

Except he now thinks that it doesn't.  Do you think the patch is good anyway?