From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756985Ab0JXOXs (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:23:48 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:51729 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809Ab0JXOXr (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:23:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:22:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Serafeim Zanikolas cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: jiffies.c: fix typos in comment In-Reply-To: <1287849986-5936-1-git-send-email-sez@debian.org> Message-ID: References: <1287849986-5936-1-git-send-email-sez@debian.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Serafeim Zanikolas > --- > kernel/time/jiffies.c | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c > index 5404a84..12ba9a7 100644 > --- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c > +++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c > @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ > * the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers > * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer > * interrupts and the inability for the timer > - * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the > - * requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended > + * interrupt hardware to accurately tick at the > + * requested HZ value. It is also not recommended > * for "tick-less" systems. You are not only correcting a typo. You are changing the sense of the comment, unfortunately in the wrong way. Why wouldn't it be recommended that the interrupt hardware ticks at the requested HZ value ? The inability of it to tick accurately at the requested HZ value is one of the causes which make jiffies clocksource inaccurate. And that what the comment says. Thanks, tglx