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
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