Re: [PATCH] clocksource: shift helper

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 23:19 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> You - the patch submitter - have to provide useful information to
> those who review the patches and not the reviewers are supposed to
> decode your sloppy commit log.
> 
> "... which I pulled from the MIPS tree"
> 
> Why should I assume that this is from mainline ?

I'm not going to get into a long argument over this..

> > > I'm fine with the change itself, but it needs to move the code out of
> > > MIPS in the first place and not just duplicating code for no good
> > > reason.
> > 
> > I can work with Atsushi, but I still think the generic version should be
> > merged. We at least would need it in order to modify the mips code.
> 
> You can think what you want, it's not the way it works.
> 
> You duplicate code, so the first thing to do is to replace the code
> which you copied and make sure it is still fully functional. Then you
> can add a second user to make the point that the generic code move is
> actually useful. btw, pmtimer is the worst example for a good use case
> as everything there is constant so we can do it at compile time.

I can provide a patch that replaces the mips code instead of acpi_pm ..
Is that what your asking for?

Daniel