Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932503AbXHEAHA (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:07:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756264AbXHEAGv (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:06:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36405 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756226AbXHEAGu (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 20:06:50 -0400 Message-ID: <46B5148E.50302@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:06:38 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: rtc max frequency setting References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 20 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > with the old rtc.ko module, there was a /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq > that could be set. With rtc_cmos.ko (or the new rtc infrastructure in > general), I am missing this file. Where can I set the max-user-freq now, > or is this obsolete now? (mplayer prefers to have user-freq to be >= 1024.) > Qemu wants something like this too. Both of these really want something else, which is a high-frequency userspace timer. What is the best way to do that on modern kernels? -hpa - 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/