From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
Cc: adeos-main@gna.org
Subject: Re: [Adeos-main] [PATCH] janitorial: remove i8253_lock conversion
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:44:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4726FCE0.30906@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472653D0.6040105@domain.hid>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Unless I'm utterly wrong, there are practically only two use cases
>> regarding the PIT: Either Linux has complete hold of it for clocksource
>> and/or clockevent usage, or the RT domain takes it over, also
>> completely. In both cases the RT domain does not need to use the
>> i8253_lock (see Xenomai). So let's remove the hunks that harden this
>> lock for no good (upcoming 2.6.24 would otherwise require even
>> _extended_ patching). Patch addresses i386, but this cleanup should be
>> applicable to x86_64 likewise.
>>
>> Jan
>
> PS: voyager hunk was uncompilable anyway.
>
It's not the hunk, it's even the entire Voyager platform which we never
supported actually. This hunk was plainly useless indeed.
>
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Philippe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-29 21:31 [Adeos-main] [PATCH] janitorial: remove i8253_lock conversion Jan Kiszka
2007-10-29 21:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2007-10-30 9:44 ` Philippe Gerum [this message]
2007-10-30 9:42 ` Philippe Gerum
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