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From:   David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: CEVT: Make R4K's clockevent_device name more meaningful
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On 12/12/2014 01:31 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> Change the R4K clockevent device's name from "MIPS" to something a bit more
> meaningful, "CEVT-R4K".
>

This is visible to userspace, so how does changing this effect the 
kernel <--> userspace ABI?  Or in other words, what uses this, and could 
changing it possibly break things?

David Daney


> Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
> ---
>   arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> index bc127e2..f531cac 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-r4k.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int r4k_clockevent_init(void)
>
>   	cd = &per_cpu(mips_clockevent_device, cpu);
>
> -	cd->name		= "MIPS";
> +	cd->name		= "CEVT-R4K";
>   	cd->features		= CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_ONESHOT |
>   				  CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP |
>   				  CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_PERCPU;
>
>
>
>