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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fix 32bits integer overflow in loops_per_jiffy
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:35:16 +0200
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>IMHO per-arch functions are really not needed. The only architectures which
>have CPUFreq drivers by now are ARM and i386. This will change, hopefully;
>IMHO it should be enough to include some basic limit checking in 
>cpufreq_scale().

In this specific case, we were talking about PPC since the problem
occured when I implemented cpufreq support to switch the speed
of the latest powerbooks between 667 and 800Mhz

Ben.


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