linux-kernel - Re: [-mm PATCH] mips: moved to GENERIC

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Message-Id: <20060903.003210.59464725.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Date:	Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:32:10 +0900 (JST)
From:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
To:	yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] mips: moved to GENERIC_TIME

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:31:08 +0900, Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@...peaks.co.jp> wrote:
> This patch has moved to GENERIC_TIME about MIPS and has removed MIPS
> specific do_gettimeofday()/do_settimeofday().
> MIPS specific do_gettimeofday()/do_settimeofday() in 2.6.18-rc4-mm3
> have undefined reference problem.

This patch makes do_gettimeoffset() orphan and a resolution of
gettimeofday() will be downgraded to jiffies, unless you add more code
for clocksource infrastructure to MIPS.

If you just wanted to fix the "undefined reference problem", replacing
"tickadj" with 500 (max ntp adjustment time) would be enough.

---
Atsushi Nemoto

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