Wall clock accuracy

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eugene Surovegin [mailto:ebs at ebshome.net] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 13:35
> > To: Rune Torgersen
> > Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
> > Subject: Re: Wall clock accuracy
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:21:09PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:
> > > 
> > > A proper fix would be for platfrom code to have a way to 
> > set time_nsec
> > > instead of having it set by a constant.
> > 
> > Or configure CLOCK_TICK_RATE in board/CPU specific fashion, e.g. like 
> > ARM does.
> 
> Then it would have to be a constant, 

Why?

> and it would be much better to just
> use the clockrate given to the kernel than have to hardcode it into the
> kernel.

Nothing prevents you from defining this macro as a function call for 
example. If this is needed for your CPU/board port. Probably common
case will be a constant, though.

-- 
Eugene