Re: [KJ][patch 3/3] VIDC20: use abs() from kernel.h instead of own definition

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 08:33:22 EST


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:50:59PM +0200, Andre Haupt wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:17:47AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:40:38PM +0200, andre@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > - diff_int = my_abs(rate_ext-rate);
> > > - diff_ext = my_abs(rate_int-rate);
> > > + diff_int = abs(rate_ext-rate);
> > > + diff_ext = abs(rate_int-rate);
> >
> > Nothing to do with the patch, but is this really correct? Surely it
> > should be diff_ext = abs(rate_ext-rate) ?
>
> hmmh, not sure about this ...

No idea. The support for external clocking came from someone else
(I was never able to work it out myself).

I can only assume that the code as it stands does work. So let's
remain bug-compatible until there's a proven problem.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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