From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
george@galis.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088262728.2805.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088253429.9831.1449.camel@cube>
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> You never did come up with an alternative to HZ-guessing
> that would work on those old 1200-HZ Alpha boxes, the ARM
> boxes that ran at 64 HZ and so on. I suppose you can blame
> the arch maintainers, but user-space has to deal with it.
> So HZ-guessing is a workaround for a kernel bug, especially
> because you claim that HZ (USER_HZ now) is part of the ABI.
well.... this value is *passed to userspace* via the AT_ attributes ....
glibc probably nicely exports this info via sysconf(). I guess/hope your
tools are now using that ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-26 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-26 12:37 Albert Cahalan
2004-06-26 15:12 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-06-26 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-26 16:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-26 17:17 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-06-26 17:13 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-06-26 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
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2004-06-24 15:59 SATA_SIL fails with 2.6.7-bk6 seagate drive George Georgalis
2004-06-24 18:46 ` Ricky Beam
2004-06-25 21:34 ` SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops George Georgalis
2004-06-25 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-28 2:12 ` George Georgalis
2004-06-29 8:46 ` Sebastian Slota
2004-06-30 4:43 ` George Georgalis
2004-06-30 6:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-02 23:01 ` George Georgalis
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