Re: [PATCH V7 4/8] posix clocks: hook dynamic clocks into system calls

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:03:46AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

Doesn't the same problem exist for the file operations of patch 3? I
think you want the very same protection there unless you want to do
the same magic in your USB driver as well.

Yes, you are right. I overlooked that.

So you could do the following:

  ...

So your fops would call get_fd_clk() and put_fd_clk() and the pc_timer
ones get_posix_clock() and put_posix_clock() or whatever sensible
function names you come up with.

Thoughts ?

It is a good, concrete suggestion. I will try it that way.

Thanks,

Richard