Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:51:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:51:01 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18379 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:50:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: To: Linus Torvalds cc: george anzinger , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] High-res-timers part 2 (x86 platform code) take 5.1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 28 On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: | On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, george anzinger wrote: | > | > This patch, in conjunction with the "core" high-res-timers | > patch implements high resolution timers on the i386 | > platforms. | | I really don't get the notion of partial ticks, and quite frankly, this | isn't going into my tree until some major distribution kicks me in the | head and explains to me why the hell we have partial ticks instead of just | making the ticks shorter. | - Carrier Grade Linux is not a distro, but we do integrate these patches into the CGL patches and will continue to use it. Please consider adding it to 2.5. Thanks, -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/