Re: [PATCH] rest of works for migration to GENERIC_TIME

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:38:37 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> 
wrote:
> > * mips_hpt_mask variable to specify bitmask of hpt value.
> 
>     There's actually no need to introduce more variables. Just make
> clocksource declaration public and override default mask if
> necessary.
>     Also, I don't see much sense in further existence of
> mips_hpt_read() -- it only causes each clocksource read go thru a
> double indirection which is really ugly. The same approach shouyld
> be used here.

I agree with you that it would be a way to go.  For now exporting
clocksource_mips just to override the mask and keep using
mips_hpt_read looks somewhat inconsistent, so I just added
mips_hpt_mask variable.

Replacing mips_hpt_read involves changes for _all_ platform code so I
think it would be better to do it on next -rc1 stage.

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Atsushi Nemoto