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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] README: document the requirements for CONFIG_SYS_HZ
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:01:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130327200108.GA5711@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130322214153.8BAFE2014CE@gemini.denx.de>

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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.

How about:
The frequency of the timer returned by get_timer().  get_timer() must
operate in milliseconds and this CONFIG option must be set to 1000.

-- 
Tom
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-27 20:01 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
2013-03-27 20:01       ` Tom Rini [this message]

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