On 12/12/2014 01:31 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
Change the R4K clockevent device's name from "MIPS" to something a bit more meaningful, "CEVT-R4K".
This is visible to userspace, so how does changing this effect the kernel <--> userspace ABI? Or in other words, what uses this, and could changing it possibly break things?
David Daney
Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c index bc127e2..f531cac 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int r4k_clockevent_init(void) cd = &per_cpu(mips_clockevent_device, cpu); - cd->name = "MIPS"; + cd->name = "CEVT-R4K"; cd->features = CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP | CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERCPU;
