Re: [PATCHSET] Announce: High-res timers, tickless/dyntick and dynamic HZ

Thomas Gleixner
2006-06-19T13:08:53Z

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:05 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> In clockevents.c
> setup_global_clockevent and recalc_events call ret=setup_event()
>
> and they act on ret but setup_event always returns 0
>
> Was more planned for setup_event() ?

In a previous version we did interrupt setup in setup_event(), but it
turned out to be too much hassle to pull in the arch specific quirks via
extra function pointers.

So the return value is just a remainder.

tglx