[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: delay: allow timer-based delay implementation to be selected

[Shilimkar, Santosh]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:14:59PM +0100, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>> > Well, your bogomips number will probably be *much* lower than before, so
>> > don't be surprised by that.
>> >
>> Indeed !!
>> This is what I observed. Can we not keep that behavior old way. BogoMIPS and
>> CPU clock is often very easy to co-related and helpful for CPUFREQ stats.
>
> I defer to David Miller, who had a similar reaction when he did this for
> sparc:
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg08550.html
>
Fair enough. Anybody who sees this BOGOMIPS change will
get similar reaction. I am fine with it now after knowing the
reason.
Thought was just to avoid similar question in future which you
might have to answer :-)

Regards
Santosh