davinci: explain CLOCK_TICK_RATE of 27MHz in include/mach/timex.h
Leave a comment explaining the constant value of 27Mhz used
in include/mach/timex.h for all DaVinci platforms. Many of
the platforms actually run at 24MHz timer frequency (Eg.
EVMs of DM355, DM365 and OMAP-L1).
The comment also serves as a porting alert.
Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/timex.h b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/timex.h
index 5282756..9b88529 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/timex.h
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/timex.h
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@
#ifndef __ASM_ARCH_TIMEX_H
#define __ASM_ARCH_TIMEX_H
-/* The source frequency for the timers is the 27MHz clock */
+/*
+ * Alert: Not all timers of the DaVinci family run at a frequency of 27MHz,
+ * but we should be fine as long as CLOCK_TICK_RATE or LATCH (see include/
+ * linux/jiffies.h) are not used directly in code. Currently none of the
+ * code relevant to DaVinci platform depends on these values directly.
+ */
#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE 27000000
#endif /* __ASM_ARCH_TIMEX_H__ */