netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v6 4/7] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource in time_get

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1911070852551.1869@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu, 7 Nov 2019 08:55:54 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 4/7] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource
 in time_get_snapshot

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>
> In some scenario like return device time to ptp_kvm guest,
> we need identify the current clocksource outside core time code.
>
> This patch add a mechanism to recognize the current clocksource
> by export clocksource id in time_get_snapshot.

Please check Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst and search for
'This patch'.

> diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
> index b21db536fd52..ac8016b22734 100644
> --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
> +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <asm/div64.h>
>  #include <asm/io.h>
> +#include <linux/clocksource_ids.h>

Please place that include to the other linux includes. You might notice
that there is ordering here.

But where is that include? It's not part of that series, so how is this
supposed to compile?

Thanks,

	tglx