Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267174AbUFZPMi (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267175AbUFZPMg (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:12:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56201 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267174AbUFZPMZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:12:25 -0400 Subject: Re: SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , george@galis.org, Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <1088253429.9831.1449.camel@cube> References: <1088253429.9831.1449.camel@cube> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pLcjSgswt+0PRx9c7TGv" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1088262728.2805.7.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:12:08 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 36 --=-pLcjSgswt+0PRx9c7TGv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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 ? --=-pLcjSgswt+0PRx9c7TGv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA3ZJIxULwo51rQBIRAvkGAJ97g64WSaM9Cxbu4xzOBW5Zx5WeGwCgoAyN yHPcJQtvvt3iIef2LF9Y+LI= =oo0u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pLcjSgswt+0PRx9c7TGv-- - 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/