From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758597AbXF1Jrt (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:47:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754734AbXF1Jrn (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:47:43 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40014 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754203AbXF1Jrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:47:42 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:47:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Venkatesh Pallipadi , John Stultz , Chris Wright , LKML References: <20070623124005.931747831@inhelltoy.tec.linutronix.de> <20070628024233.8e29a5bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070628024233.8e29a5bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706281147.04556.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:42:33 Andrew Morton wrote: > > The patch set has been tested in the -hrt and -rt trees for quite a while > > and the initial problems have been sorted out. Thanks to the folks from the > > PowerTop project for testing and feedback. > > hrm. Looks like none of your testers have HPET_ID_LEGSUP hardware. AFAIK it's only on IBM Summit. You have such a box? > btw, if you want to know why I go on and on about crappy commenting, try to > work out from the kernel source code what HPET_ID_LEGSUP is, and why it > gets special treatment. It is not possible. This is not maintainable > code. We have a reference somewhere to the HPET spec. -Andi