Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933717AbYB2WuV (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760259AbYB2WuH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:07 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:46673 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755119AbYB2WuF (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:27:01 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Andrew Morton cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST In-Reply-To: <20080229140842.575e72aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1201142334.6383.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1201659263.6766.40.camel@localhost> <1201745776.6195.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1201914175.6216.46.camel@jstultz-laptop> <1202523452.6174.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202774999.5984.106.camel@localhost> <1202963796.6195.141.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1203382940.5984.242.camel@localhost> <1203472250.6123.98.camel@localhost> <1203647951.6150.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080229140842.575e72aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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 Content-Length: 1017 Lines: 25 Hi, On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > The changelog provides no reason for the revert of those two patches. > > Look at it from the point of view of a person who hasn't been following the > discussion (whose initials might be LT). That person might get puzzled and > upset, no? I'm puzzled at how to explain this... The whole details have been explained over and over during the discussion. The simple answer is that CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST has been causing extra clock drift, John's attempt didn't fix the real cause. My patch doesn't just revert the patches, it also includes the _real_ fix, so why would the real fix require more justification? That person also didn't get puzzled why two patches claiming to fix the same problem got merged... bye, Roman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/