From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
"linux-input@vger.kernel.org" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:16:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXctPvoJGOOVPA+a=ZGqYHsttTw3eGNU1sNGRcidshF3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140820144952.GB18099@core.coreip.homeip.net>
Hi Dmitry,
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:05:58 +0200,
>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> > Well, it worked on my test machine a year ago or so. Maybe I had a
>> > good luck.
>>
>> FYI, now I tested again an analog joystick on SB Live put on a Dell
>> IvyBridge desktop with 3.17-rc1 x86-64 kernel, and it worked fine as
>> is.
>>
>> So it's not that broken.
>
> That's probably because in your system TSCs are stable when switching CPU
> frequency. Earlier systems had bunch of issues there IIRC.
>From the success stories above, it seems gameport doesn't work on only
a limited number of systems.
Perhaps the subsystem can fail with a big fat warning at runtime if such
a system is detected?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-21 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-20 2:46 [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits Andreas Mohr
2014-08-20 5:18 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-20 5:50 ` Andreas Mohr
2014-08-20 6:09 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-20 6:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-20 7:05 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-20 12:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-20 14:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-21 7:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2014-08-20 12:29 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-08-20 12:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-21 11:29 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-24 5:07 ` Andreas Mohr
2014-08-25 7:13 ` Takashi Iwai
2014-08-28 20:03 ` Clemens Ladisch
2014-08-28 21:11 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-08-20 14:27 ` Andreas Mohr
2014-08-20 14:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-20 6:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2014-08-20 12:20 ` One Thousand Gnomes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-19 16:41 Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-20 7:33 ` Clemens Ladisch
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