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Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:33:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] clockevents: Provide interface to reconfigure an
 active clock event device
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On Thu, 19 May 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > + */
> > +int clockevents_reconfigure(struct clock_event_device *dev, u32 freq)
> 
> This too could use a struct clockevents_params perhaps - and would only use 
> params.freq for now but might be extended in the future.
> 
> But i'm fine with this API as well:

I agree for the config_register interface, but here we really just
want to update the frequency and not change any other parameter.
 
Thanks,

	tglx