On Tuesday 12 May 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Most of the users of CLOCK_TICK_RATE in the kernel outside > of ARM assume that it refers to the i8253 base frequency > of 1.193182 Mhz, while in ARM it actually is the clock > frequency of the timer. > > By renaming it to ARM_TICK_RATE for all arm specific > device drivers, we can hopefully reduce the amount > of confusion slightly. My patch was missing one important change to make this a nonintrusive change: --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/timex.h @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ #include <mach/timex.h> +#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE ARM_TICK_RATE + typedef unsigned long cycles_t; static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void) Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
