linux-kernel - Re: [NTP 5/9] add time

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Message-Id: <20060821.003317.63131005.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:33:17 +0900 (JST)
From:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
To:	zippel@...ux-m68k.org
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [NTP 5/9] add time_adjust to tick length

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:01:51 +0200, zippel@...ux-m68k.org wrote:
> This folds update_ntp_one_tick() into second_overflow() and adds
> time_adjust to the tick length, this makes time_next_adjust unnecessary.
> This slightly changes the adjtime() behaviour, instead of applying it to
> the next tick, it's applied to the next second.
...
> -/* Don't completely fail for HZ > 500.  */
> -int tickadj = 500/HZ ? : 1;		/* microsecs */

The tickadj is used by cris, frv, m32r, m68k, mips and sparc.  This
patch would break build on those platforms.

I have not looked at this patch closely yet.  Just a report.
---
Atsushi Nemoto
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