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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:05:35 +0200 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> To: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net> Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] clocksource: nomadik-mtu: fix up clocksource/timer On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 03:19:43PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote: >> >> > The Nomadik clocksource driver has had a bad define making it >> > impossible to use it for sched_clock() for a while. Fix this >> > and also enable it for the Nomadik. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> >> >> This one should go to fixes ASAP, could you pick it to your fixes >> branch? It could be tagged stable if desired - this only affects the >> Nomadik which works just OK on jiffies so it's really no big regression. >> The Ux500 does not use the MTU for sched_clock(). > > Ok, applied on top of next/multiplatform, seems to be what it's based on. > > Tagging as stable is up to you as platform owner. :) Since it won't directly > apply to older kernels you might be better of submitting it to Greg separately. Oh it's not *that* critical. It is not regressing anything in a bad way, jiffies work fine. But this is the proper way for the Nomadik long-term. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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