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

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Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 02:34:57 +0000
From:   "Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China)" <Jianyong.Wu@....com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v6 4/7] time: Add mechanism to recognize clocksource
 in time_get_snapshot

Hi tglx,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:56 PM
> To: Jianyong Wu (Arm Technology China) <Jianyong.Wu@....com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; yangbo.lu@....com; john.stultz@...aro.org;
> pbonzini@...hat.com; sean.j.christopherson@...el.com; maz@...nel.org;
> richardcochran@...il.com; Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>;
> will@...nel.org; Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org;
> kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu; kvm@...r.kernel.org; Steve Capper
> <Steve.Capper@....com>; Kaly Xin (Arm Technology China)
> <Kaly.Xin@....com>; Justin He (Arm Technology China)
> <Justin.He@....com>; nd <nd@....com>
> 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'.
> 

Yeah, the expression should be more impersonal.

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

OMG! Sorry, I added this file when I prepared my patches but missed to include it into this patch! This must be avoid latter.

Thanks
Jianyong

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx