Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix for ADJ_SETOFFSET w/ ADJ_NANO

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 02:55:12 EST


On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 01/21/2016 04:03 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> > David Herrmann mailed me pointing out that one of the
> > changes that landed in 4.5-rc broke users of ADJ_SETOFFSET
> > when used with ADJ_NANO.
> >
> > I've implemented a fix to this issue and also introduced
> > more unit tests to validate these going forward.
> >
> > Thomas: Can you queue the first patch for tip/timers/urgent?
> >
> > Shuah: The kselftests patch can wait to the next merge window
> > if you'd prefer.
>
> Yeah. Probably it has to wait until the next merge window as
> this is a new test. I can pull this into linux-kselftest next
> after merge window closes.

We really should not delay selftests, especially if they have been written
along with a fix for a recently detected problem.

Thanks,

tglx