Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:16:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:16:52 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:12672 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:16:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:23:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Alan Cox cc: Willy Tarreau , Jim Paris , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: time() glitch on 2.4.18: solved In-Reply-To: <1036526846.6750.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> 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: 1178 Lines: 32 On 5 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:29, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > The only hardware a modern PC needs to use "slow-down_io" on is > > the RTC CMOS device. Since we need to support older boards, you > > don't want to remove the _p options indiscriminately, but you do > > not want them ever between two consecutive writes to the same device- > > port. > > I own at least one that needs the _p on the DMA controller and at one > that needs _p on the PIT > Hey, look. I can only warn. You do what you want. As far as I'm concerned support stopped at Linux 2.4.19 when poll got trashed. Nobody can use 2.4.19 or probably anything later unless they have powerful CPUs that can spin with 1000 SIGPOLL signals per second. Like you have said, that's the nature of free software. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Bush : The Fourth Reich of America - 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/