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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:57:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111028065726.GE12995@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319764362-32367-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>


* John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:

> After getting a number of questions in private emails about the
> math around admittedly very complex timekeeping_adjust() and
> timekeeping_big_adjust(), I  figure the code needs some better
> comments.
> 
> Hopefully the explanations are clear enough and don't muddy the water
> any worse.
> 
> Still needs documentation for ntp_error, but I couldn't recall
> exactly the full explanation behind the code that's there (although
> I do recall once working it out when Roman first proposed it).
> Given a bit more time I can probably work it out, but I don't want to
> hold back this documentation until then.
> 
> CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/time/timekeeping.c |   81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Applied to tip:timers/core, thanks John.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28  1:12 John Stultz
2011-10-28  6:05 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-28  7:02   ` John Stultz
2011-10-30 17:14     ` Andy Moreton
2011-10-28  6:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-11-18 23:04 ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for John Stultz

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