Re: [PATCH] rest of works for migration to GENERIC_TIME

[Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>]

Hello.

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

>>>* mips_hpt_mask variable to specify bitmask of hpt value.

>>    There's actually no need to introduce more variables. Just make
>>clocksource declaration public and override default mask if
>>necessary.
>>    Also, I don't see much sense in further existence of
>>mips_hpt_read() -- it only causes each clocksource read go thru a
>>double indirection which is really ugly. The same approach shouyld
>>be used here.

> I agree with you that it would be a way to go.  For now exporting
> clocksource_mips just to override the mask and keep using
> mips_hpt_read looks somewhat inconsistent, so I just added
> mips_hpt_mask variable.

> Replacing mips_hpt_read involves changes for _all_ platform code so I

    Only 3 files in the current arch/mips/ actually, excluding time.c and the 
header file (to make it visible).

> think it would be better to do it on next -rc1 stage.

    AKA never. ;-)

WBR, Sergei