Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Linus Torvalds
2005-07-14T23:52:02Z

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
> HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.

Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be
bothered to set the default to suit your usage?

> It's straight from the MIDI spec. Your argument is pretty close to "the
> MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".

No.

YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".

MY argument is that this is a case of give and take.

Linus