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Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/dw_apb: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:07:49PM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> In preparation for making the clockevents core NTP correction aware,
> all clockevent device drivers must set ->min_delta_ticks and
> ->max_delta_ticks rather than ->min_delta_ns and ->max_delta_ns: a
> clockevent device's rate is going to change dynamically and thus, the
> ratio of ns to ticks ceases to stay invariant.
> 
> Make the dw_apb clockevent driver initialize these fields properly.
> 
> This patch alone doesn't introduce any change in functionality as the
> clockevents core still looks exclusively at the (untouched) ->min_delta_ns
> and ->max_delta_ns. As soon as this has changed, a followup patch will
> purge the initialization of ->min_delta_ns and ->max_delta_ns from this
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

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[PATCH] clockevents/drivers/dw_apb: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com> - 2017-03-30 22:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/dw_apb: set ->min_delta_ticks and  ->max_delta_ticks Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2017-04-07 15:30 +0200

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