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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] README: document the requirements for CONFIG_SYS_HZ
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:12:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130322211203.BA4752014CE@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363923692-12748-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

Dear Stephen,

In message <1363923692-12748-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
> CONFIG_SYS_HZ must be 1000, and get_timer() must therefore return mS.
> Document this.

"must return mS" ? "mS" means Milli-Siemens, which is a unit of
electric conductance and electric admittance.  You mean "ms" =
milliseconds ...

> +- CPU timer options:
> +		CONFIG_SYS_HZ
> +
> +		The frequency of the timer returned by get_timer(). This value
> +		MUST be 1000.

This is misleading, or even incorrect.  If I read this, I would expect
that get_timer() returns 1000. Obviously, this is incorrect.  Instead,
get_timer() returns timestamp information in millisecond resolution.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-22  3:41 [U-Boot] [PATCH] README: document the requirements for CONFIG_SYS_HZ Stephen Warren
2013-03-22 21:12 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-03-22 21:18   ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-22 21:41     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-27 20:01       ` Tom Rini

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