Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:34:59 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: george@mvista.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up FIXME in do_timer_interrupt
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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:42 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
> > This patch changes the update of the cmos clock to be timer driven
> > rather than poll driven by the timer interrupt function.  If the clock
> > is not being synced to an outside source the timer is removed and thus
> > system overhead is nill in that case.  The update frequency is still ~11
> > minutes and missing the update window still causes a retry in 60
> > seconds.
> 
> No replies yet.  Are there any objections to this patch?

Nope.  I think it's neat.  I queued it up.

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