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

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Message-ID: <52659443.2050203@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:53:23 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.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

On 10/21/2013 09:12 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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 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?

Yes, sure.

   -- Daniel


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