linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core

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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:12:40 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	John Stulz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@...itan.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fixes for integer rounding in timer core

Hello,

[added Daniel Lezcano to To:]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 09:34:37AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:31:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > What's the status of this patch?
> > I pinged Thomas about it already via irc, but I didn't get a response up
> > to now. It would be great to get that into 3.12. To make it easy for
> > Thomas, here is a pull request that includes the fix and converts
> > at91rm9200 back to clockevents_config_and_register dropping one of the
> > workarounds for the fixed bug.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 4a10c2ac2f368583138b774ca41fac4207911983:
> > 
> >   Linux 3.12-rc2 (2013-09-23 15:41:09 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ukl/linux.git tags/timer-for-tip
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to b58c4b70121070f45eefa739ecbb58d57da1c4d9:
> > 
> >   ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register (2013-10-08 16:58:22 +0200)
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > The first patch in this pull request fixes an old integer rounding bug in the
> > timer core that was (and still is) worked around in a few arch's timer code.
> > The second patch drops such a work around now that the core is fixed.
> It would be nice to get that fix into 3.12, but Thomas stopped
> responding nearly a month ago---his last mail in this thread[1] dates back
> to September 20.
Still no sign of life from Thomas.
 
> Can one of you please take it directly?
Daniel, would you care to take it?

Best regards
Uwe

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