Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:10:28 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MIPS: clockevent drivers: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:47:32PM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> In preparation for making the clockevents core NTP correction aware, > all clockevent device drivers must set ->min_delta_ticks and > ->max_delta_ticks rather than ->min_delta_ns and ->max_delta_ns: a > clockevent device's rate is going to change dynamically and thus, the > ratio of ns to ticks ceases to stay invariant. > > Make the MIPS arch's clockevent drivers initialize these fields properly. > > This patch alone doesn't introduce any change in functionality as the > clockevents core still looks exclusively at the (untouched) ->min_delta_ns > and ->max_delta_ns. As soon as this has changed, a followup patch will > purge the initialization of ->min_delta_ns and ->max_delta_ns from these > drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Feel free to push this to Linus.
Ralf
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