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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:44:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Patch - sharing RTC timer between kernel and user space
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Hi!

> 	it would be really nice to include this patch to allow using of
> RTC timer inside the kernel space. We can use the RTC timer as timing
> source for ALSA sequencer.

I wonder... how does alsa work on sparc/alpha/.... then? Not everyone
has RTC, right? Why don't you use regular kernel timers, instead?
									Pavel
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