Re: asm/timex.h

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Fri, 24 May 2002 18:49:03 +0100


On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:33:45PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have several questions about asm/timex.h
>
> 1) Who uses it? The kernel certainly doesn't. Perhaps NTP?

The kernel does. Thanks to the sched.h mess it's even implictly
included in almost any file..

> 3) What if an architecture doesn't have a compile-time known
> CLOCK_TICK_RATE? I suppose I cannot just #define it to a variable,
> because the kernel doesn't use it, and that probably means userland
> does ...

The kernel DOES use it. grep(1) is your friend.

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