Re: [PATCH 10/12] clocksource: Mostly kill clocksource_register()

[Ingo Molnar]

* John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A long running project has been to cleanup remaining uses
> of clocksource_register(), replacing it with the simpler
> clocksource_register_khz/hz().

s/.$/ functions.

> However, there are a few cases where we need to self-define
> our mult/shift values, so switch the function to a more
> obviously internal __clocksource_register(), and consolidate

s/(),/() name,

> much of the internal logic so we don't have duplication.

> +	if (freq) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Calc the maximum number of seconds which we can run before
> +		 * wrapping around. For clocksources which have a mask > 32bit
> +		 * we need to limit the max sleep time to have a good
> +		 * conversion precision. 10 minutes is still a reasonable
> +		 * amount. That results in a shift value of 24 for a
> +		 * clocksource with mask >= 40bit and f >= 4GHz. That maps to
> +		 * ~ 0.06ppm granularity for NTP.

s/32bit/32-bit
s/40bit/40-bit

Thanks,

	Ingo
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