On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 01:37 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It would appear that what you actually wanted to happen in that commit was > to make sure that the clocksource didn't get registered. If so, the > logical patch would be something like the appended instead, which would > disable the code that registers it the _obvious_ way, instead of > initializing a variable to a bad pointer and then relying on the bad > pointer to disable the code. > > So can somebody explain to me why it was done in that really odd way? Oops, slipped through my attention. Indeed your #ifdef IA64 variant is the sane solution. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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