[PATCH] Make MIPS dynamic clocksource/clockevent clock code generic

[mcdonald.shane@gmail.com (Shane McDonald)]

Hello:

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com
> wrote:

> This moves the clocksource_set_clock() and clockevent_set_clock()
> from the MIPS timer code into clockchips and clocksource where
> it belongs. The patch was triggered by code posted by Mikael
> Pettersson duplicating this code for the IOP ARM system. The
> function signatures where altered slightly to fit into their
> destination header files, unsigned int changed to u32 and inlined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> ---
> Ralf has stated in earlier conversation that this should be moved,
> now we risk duplicating code so let's move it.
>
> I don't have access to a MIPS cross-compiler so please can the
> MIPS people test this?
>

I have tested this patch on an RM7000-based MIPS system.  The patch compiles
fine, and the kernel successfully runs.  You can add my:

Tested-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com>

Shane
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