shift and clocksource

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Jun 20 02:25:59 EDT 2011


Hi Carlo,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 06:18:44PM +0200, Carlo Caione wrote:
> Hi,
> I was looking in the sources for time keeping. Why the shift field of
> the clocksource structure is always set to 10?  Also using the
> clocks_calc_mult_shift() in kernel sources I obtain different values
> for the shift variable.

The value 10 is copied from the initial clocksource. We should add
clocks_calc_mult_shift() to barebox and use it there also.

Sascha

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