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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:59:47 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: using-get_cycles-for-add_timer_randomness.patch
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:40:05 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> What's the status of this?  Is it a showstopper for MIPS?

It is impossible for this to make things any worse
than they are now, even if the platform returns zero
or jiffies for get_cycles().