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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timekeeping: drop irq-context clocksource polling
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On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 10:33 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Oh well, this is a leftover from the days where we tried to use TSC
> despite of frequency changes. It still modifies the scale factor of the
> tsc clocksource. 
> 
> I agree that it can be removed as we switch off TSC anyway in that case.

That's what I was thinking .. However, I wanted to wait for John to
comment on it also ..

Dainel