On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:07 PM, John Stultz <john.stu...@linaro.org> wrote:

> So summarizing the above, because as much as I'm aware, its always been
> redundant and unnecessary on x86.  Thus being able at build time to mark it
> as unnecessary was attractive, since it reduced the code paths running at
> suspend/resume.
>
> That said, Kay's concerns about userland implications (basically the
> userland side effects of SYSTOHC being enabled) give me pause, so I may
> revert the HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86 change.

Thanks a lot for all the missing details!

No, I think that all makes too much sense to revert it. Let's just
find a way to solve it properly. I don't think it is of any pressing
importance to keep the old behaviour, if we can still provide the
functionality today.

I'll continue replying in the later mail ...

Kay
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