On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:47:04 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? Intel Nocona SDV thing. Old. > > 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. The HPET spec won't tell me why HPET_ID_LEGSUP hpets get a kmalloc in Linux but the !HPET_ID_LEGSUP ones don't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
