From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:40:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124296844.3591.7.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430363F2.7090009@aknet.ru>
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> perhaps allowing a single higher frequency, or allowing just any
> frequency, is pretty much the same task, and doesn't
> look achievable within the currently existing
> timer API anyway
Lots of things aren't doable with the current timer API, hence all the
recent work on dynamic tick. This driver would actually be a perfect
test for the dynamic tick system as your PC speaker driver basically
implements its own dynamic tick mechanism. Just replace all the PIT
reprogramming with itimers.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-17 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 13:36 [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks Stas Sergeev
2005-08-15 17:19 ` john stultz
2005-08-16 20:21 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-16 22:24 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-08-17 16:10 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17 2:09 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-17 16:21 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17 16:40 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-08-17 17:41 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-17 23:16 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-18 16:59 ` Stas Sergeev
2005-08-18 17:07 ` Lee Revell
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