Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/time: Use clocksource_register_hz

[John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 11:59 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> plain text document attachment (clock3)
> Use clocksource_register_hz which calculates the shift/mult
> factors for us.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-build/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-build.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c	2011-11-03 10:19:59.493679032 +1100
> +++ linux-build/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c	2011-11-03 10:20:00.965704053 +1100
> @@ -86,8 +86,6 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_rt
>  	.rating       = 400,
>  	.flags        = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
>  	.mask         = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
> -	.shift        = 22,
> -	.mult         = 0,	/* To be filled in */
>  	.read         = rtc_read,
>  };
> 
> @@ -97,8 +95,6 @@ static struct clocksource clocksource_ti
>  	.rating       = 400,
>  	.flags        = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS,
>  	.mask         = CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(64),
> -	.shift        = 22,
> -	.mult         = 0,	/* To be filled in */
>  	.read         = timebase_read,
>  };

So I've held off on ppc conversion to clocksource_register_hz due to the
fact that the ppc vdso gettimeofday at least used to make assumptions
that shift was 22.

Is that no longer the case?

thanks
-john