On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 16:22 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 16:01, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 15:52 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> > >> No, fixed time spans have never been a problem, and are not the > >> example here. It's about the normal wall clock, that wakes up every > >> minute and updates the numbers on the screen. > > > > 'wakes up every minute' sounds like a fixed time interval to me. > > Right, but if the wall clock changes, it must not wait for the full > minute to update the numbers, they need to update immediately with the > new wall clock time. Stuff woke up every second in the past to do > that, but that's not what we want today. Again, nothing that couldn't be solved with a notifier of sorts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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