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

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

Hello, I wrote:

>> Since we already moved to GENERIC_TIME, we should implement
>> alternatives of old do_gettimeoffset routines to get sub-jiffies
>> resolution from gettimeofday().  This patch includes:

>> * 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.

    This way, the other structure fields (like .name) could also be overriden 
if needed...

WBR, Sergei