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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:51:41 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow CLOCK_TICK_RATE to be undefined
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:41:40 +0100
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

> This patch allows an architecture to not define CLOCK_TICK_RATE, in
> which case ACTHZ defaults to (HZ << 8).

No reason was given for this change.

So those people who are wondering "why don't you just define
CLOCK_TICK_RATE" are made all sad.