[RFC, PATCH 0/5] unify definition of CLOCK_TICK_RATE across different platforms

Kevin Hilman khilman at deeprootsystems.com
Wed Oct 20 16:30:10 EDT 2010


Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh at wantstofly.org> writes:

> One of the things preventing building an ARM multiplatform kernel
> image is the fact that CLOCK_TICK_RATE (and as a consequence, LATCH)
> is defined differently for each ARM platform.
>
> The patches in this series:
> - pull the per-platform CLOCK_TICK_RATE defines from <mach/timex.h>
>   into arch/arm/mach-foo/ (on those platforms that use the
>   CLOCK_TICK_RATE define and/or the LATCH define in their platform
>   support code);
> - define CLOCK_TICK_RATE as a platform-independent value in <asm/timex.h>;
> - get rid of all <mach/timex.h> include files.
>
> Comments welcome!

Excellent!

For the davinci & OMAP changes:

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at deeprootsystems.com>




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