linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] Remove current_tick

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:41:00 -0700
From:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
To:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] Remove current_tick_length()


On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:40 +0100, zippel@...ux-m68k.org wrote:
> plain text document attachment (tick_length)
> current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns
> tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where
> it's needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>

Hrm. I'm not sure I like using a global variable instead of using an
accessor function. At least with the accessor function folks couldn't
just tweak the value outside ntp as easily.

Is there any additional rational for this change?

thanks
-john


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