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

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 09:56:29 EST


On 01/22/2016 12:54 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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.
>

Thomas,

Yes. That is why I have "probably" in my response.
Could you please fold this test in with your urgent
fix, so they can go in together.

Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah

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