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From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 38/40] tracing: Make tracing_set_clock() non-static
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:18:00 -0500
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On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:18 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 16:57:50 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Allow tracing code outside of trace.c to access tracing_set_clock().
> > 
> > Some applications may require a particular clock in order to function
> > properly, such as latency calculations.
> > 
> > Also, add an accessor returning the current clock string.
> 
> It seems this patch should be merged in the next patch, which
> is actual consumer of this API.
> 

Yeah, that might make more sense in this case.

Thanks,

Tom