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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] Remove current_tick_length()
    Hi,

    On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, john stultz wrote:

    > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:40 +0100, zippel@linux-m68k.org wrote:
    > > plain text document attachment (tick_length)
    > > current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns
    > > tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where
    > > it's needed.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
    >
    > Hrm. I'm not sure I like using a global variable instead of using an
    > accessor function. At least with the accessor function folks couldn't
    > just tweak the value outside ntp as easily.

    Why would someone do something silly like this?

    > Is there any additional rational for this change?

    Useless bloat?

    bye, Roman


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