A change to clocksource initialization. If the list field is initialized 
it allows clocksource_register to complete faster since it doesn't have 
to scan the list of clocks doing strcmp on each looking for duplicates.

Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c |    3 +--
 kernel/time/jiffies.c     |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19/kernel/time/clocksource.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ linux-2.6.19/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -186,12 +186,11 @@ int clocksource_register(struct clocksou
        unsigned long flags;
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&clocksource_lock, flags);
-       if (unlikely(!list_empty(&c->list) && __is_registered(c->name))) {
+       if (unlikely(!list_empty(&c->list))) {
                printk("register_clocksource: Cannot register %s clocksource. "
                       "Already registered!", c->name);
                ret = -EBUSY;
        } else {
-               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&c->list);
                __sorted_list_add(c);
                /* scan the registered clocksources, and pick the best one */
                next_clocksource = select_clocksource();
Index: linux-2.6.19/kernel/time/jiffies.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19.orig/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ linux-2.6.19/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct clocksource clocksource_jiffies =
        .mult           = NSEC_PER_JIFFY << JIFFIES_SHIFT, /* details above */
        .shift          = JIFFIES_SHIFT,
        .is_continuous  = 0, /* tick based, not free running */
+       .list           = LIST_HEAD_INIT(clocksource_jiffies.list),
 };
 
 static int __init init_jiffies_clocksource(void)

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