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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, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5
Date: 14 Jun 2002 16:44:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024098271.4358.8.camel@cog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206141827510.31514-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-14 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-14 18:35 [Patch] tsc-disable_A5 john stultz
2002-06-14 18:53 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-06-18  0:48   ` Kurt Garloff
2002-06-18  1:31     ` john stultz
2002-06-14 18:57 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-14 19:04   ` john stultz
2002-06-14 19:56     ` Dave Jones
2002-06-14 23:29       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-06-14 23:44         ` john stultz [this message]
2002-06-24  2:09 ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 21:53 Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-14 22:11 ` john stultz
2002-06-15 14:13 Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-19 13:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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