linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] units: complement the set of Hz units

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:07:14 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Rokosov <DDRokosov@...rdevices.ru>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] units: complement the set of Hz units

On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:55:41 +0100 Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:52:26 +0000
> Dmitry Rokosov <DDRokosov@...rdevices.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Currently, Hz units do not have milli, micro and nano Hz coefficients.
> > Some drivers (IIO especially) use their analogues to calculate
> > appropriate Hz values. This patch includes them to units.h definitions,
> > so they can be used from different kernel places.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@...rdevices.ru>
> I'm not really sure why Andrew Morton picked these up as no obviously
> dependencies outside of IIO and we have other patches under review that
> need these.

Mainly because [0/n] was titled "units: ...", not "iio: ..."!

> Anyhow, I see they are still in Andrew's nonmm-unstable tree, so
> assuming he won't mind me picking them up through IIO instead / as well.
> If nothing else git will sort this out when the two trees reach
> linux-next or upstream anyway.

I'll drop 'em.