[PATCH 2/2] mach-sa1100: modernize and cleanup timer code

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:41:21PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2012/1/14 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Kristoffer Ericson
> >> <kristoffer.ericson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Ursäkta förseningen, fick något minne kring att cpu klockningen inte fungerade korrekt
> >> > om man inte satte direkt systemklock värde. Var något som pratade med russell om
> >> > för något år sedan.
> >>
> >> Menar du detta:
> >> MIN_OSCR_DELTA * 2
> >>
> >> Så är det ju med i den nya koden oxo, det är ingen semantisk skillnad
> >> så vitt jag kan se...
> >>
> >> Det enda som egentligen ändras är att minimum lapse mellan två events
> >> (mult+shift) beräknas av clockevent core.
> >
> > If you speak english on these lists, other people might be able to
> > understand what you're saying.
> 
> Haha sorry Russell I didn't notice that the response was in LAKML :-)
> 
> So Kristoffer remarked that the CPU clocking was sensitive on the
> SA1100 so he wanted to test it first.
> 
> And I said that apart from the minimum scheduling interval now
> handled by the clockevent core it should be semantically equivalent.
> 
> But it never hurts to test it so I'll wait for Kristoffers ACK.

The only point I have on the patch is that it shouldn't use CLOCK_TICK_RATE
lets try to get away from this horrible definition in mach/timex.h.