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From: Laurent Georget <laurent.georget-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)"
	<mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] adjtimex.2: Change 'PPM' (parts per million) to 'ppm'
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:42:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AC0250.5080005@supelec.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54ABFD54.9000705-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

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Hi

Le 06/01/2015 16:20, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :

> Laurent, please watch out: your patches are injecting trailing
> white space on lines. My release scripts clean those up, but
> it means that patches apply with "noise".

Really? I see no extra whitespace in my diff. Where do they come?
Anyway, I'll take extra care next time. Thank you.

Laurent

>>
>> ---
>>  man2/adjtimex.2 | 15 +++++++--------
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2
>> index ff4b23e..dbb2333 100644
>> --- a/man2/adjtimex.2
>> +++ b/man2/adjtimex.2
>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ struct timex {
>>      long offset;      /* Time offset; nanoseconds, if STA_NANO
>>                           status flag is set, otherwise
>>                           microseconds */
>> -    long freq;        /* Frequency offset, in units of 2^-16 PPM
>> +    long freq;        /* Frequency offset, in units of 2^-16 ppm
>>                           (parts per million) (see NOTES below) */
>>      long maxerror;    /* Maximum error (microseconds) */
>>      long esterror;    /* Estimated error (microseconds) */
>> @@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ struct timex {
>>      long constant;    /* PLL (phase-locked loop) time constant */
>>      long precision;   /* Clock precision (microseconds,
>>                           read-only) */
>> -    long tolerance;   /* Clock frequency tolerance (PPM,
>> -                         read-only) */
>> +    long tolerance;   /* Clock frequency tolerance (ppm, read-only) */
>>      struct timeval time;
>>                        /* Current time (read-only, except for
>>                           ADJ_SETOFFSET); upon return, time.tv_usec
>> @@ -71,13 +70,13 @@ struct timex {
>>                           flag is set, otherwise microseconds */
>>      long tick;        /* Microseconds between clock ticks */
>>      long ppsfreq;     /* PPS (pulse per second) frequency
>> -                         (2^-16 PPM (see NOTES), read-only) */
>> +                         (2^-16 ppm (see NOTES), read-only) */
>>      long jitter;      /* PPS jitter (read-only); nanoseconds, if
>>                           STA_NANO status flag is set, otherwise
>>                           microseconds */
>>      int  shift;       /* PPS interval duration
>>                           (seconds, read-only) */
>> -    long stabil;      /* PPS stability (2^-16 PPM (see NOTES), read-only) */
>> +    long stabil;      /* PPS stability (2^-16 ppm (see NOTES), read-only) */
>>      long jitcnt;      /* PPS jitter limit exceeded (read-only) */
>>      long calcnt;      /* PPS calibration intervals (read-only) */
>>      long errcnt;      /* PPS calibration errors (read-only) */
>> @@ -349,9 +348,9 @@ In struct
>>  .IR ppsfreq ,
>>  and 
>>  .I stabil
>> -are PPM (parts per million) with a 16-bits fractional part, which means that a
>> -value of 1 in one of those fields actually means 2^-16 PPM, and 2^16=65535 is 
>> -1 PPM. This is the case for both input values (in the case of
>> +are ppm (parts per million) with a 16-bits fractional part, which means that a
>> +value of 1 in one of those fields actually means 2^-16 ppm, and 2^16=65535 is 
>> +1 ppm. This is the case for both input values (in the case of
>>  .IR freq )
>>  and output values.
>>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>>
> 
> 


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-30 17:19 [PATCH] adjtimex.2: Add details about ADJ_FREQUENCY Laurent Georget
     [not found] ` <54A2DEAD.2050708-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-30 18:05   ` Richard Cochran
     [not found]     ` <20141230180549.GB7403-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-30 18:47       ` Laurent Georget
2015-01-02  2:41   ` [PATCH] adjtimex: PPM scaling is by 2^-16 Jeff Epler
2015-01-02  6:29     ` Richard Cochran
     [not found]       ` <20150102062920.GB4221-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-02 16:39         ` Laurent Georget
     [not found]           ` <54A6C9B5.4050904-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-02 18:51             ` Richard Cochran
2015-01-02 21:15             ` Jeff Epler
     [not found]               ` <20150102211519.GA55815-ixP+gI44yfQ4d9/VWYMlNA@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-02 22:48                 ` Laurent Georget
2015-01-02 23:01   ` [PATCH 1/2] adjtimex.2: Clarify the 'ppm scaling' used in struct timex Laurent Georget
2015-01-02 23:07     ` [PATCH 2/2] adjtimex.2: Change 'PPM' (parts per million) to 'ppm' Laurent Georget
     [not found]       ` <54A724BE.8050409-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-06 15:20         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]           ` <54ABFD54.9000705-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-06 15:42             ` Laurent Georget [this message]
     [not found]               ` <54AC0250.5080005-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-07  5:59                 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]                   ` <54ACCB28.50100-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-08 16:29                     ` Laurent Georget
     [not found]     ` <54A72360.3070807-vbcOdlJ0SulGWvitb5QawA@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-06 15:19       ` [PATCH 1/2] adjtimex.2: Clarify the 'ppm scaling' used in struct timex Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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