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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] README: document the requirements for CONFIG_SYS_HZ
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:41:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130322214153.8BAFE2014CE@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514CCAAE.6020909@wwwdotorg.org>

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <514CCAAE.6020909@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> >> +		The frequency of the timer returned by get_timer(). This value
> >> +		MUST be 1000.
> > 
> > This is misleading, or even incorrect.  If I read this, I would expect
> > that get_timer() returns 1000. Obviously, this is incorrect.  Instead,
> > get_timer() returns timestamp information in millisecond resolution.
> 
> That is not what that sentence means.

Yes, I know.  But it can be easily misinterpreted.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-22  3:41 [U-Boot] [PATCH] README: document the requirements for CONFIG_SYS_HZ Stephen Warren
2013-03-22 21:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-22 21:18   ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-22 21:41     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-03-27 20:01       ` Tom Rini

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