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Subject: Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
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        "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 16:29, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I suppose you could it rewrite like
> 
> ...
> CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC=y (or whatever)
> ...
> 
> if [ some_condition ]; then
>   define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC n
> else
>   define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC $CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC
> fi
> 
> Not exactly elegant, but it should work ;)

Yep, my first release was done in a similar fashion, but Alan suggested
the patch take on its current form. There may be cases where we want to
know if we have a TSC even if we don't want to use them. 

Thread link:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/1188.html

Thanks for the suggestion,
-john

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