[PATCH] VIA timer fix was removed?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

Hello.

The following patch (introduced by Vojtech Pavlik some time ago) was
removed somewhere between 2.4.14 and 2.4.15-pre3.
Without it, the timer counter is reset to a wrong value and
gettimeofday() starts to return strange values.

Nothing aboutit is mentioned in the changelog, so I suppose it wasn't
supposed to be removed?

J.

--- linux-2.4.15-pre3/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	Sun Nov 11 21:33:31 2001
+++ linux-2.4.15-pre3-new/arch/i386/kernel/time.c	Mon Nov 12 10:45:57 2001
@@ -501,6 +501,14 @@
 
 		count = inb_p(0x40);    /* read the latched count */
 		count |= inb(0x40) << 8;
+
+		if (count > LATCH-1) {
+			outb_p(0x34, 0x43);
+		        outb_p(LATCH & 0xff, 0x40);
+			outb(LATCH >> 8, 0x40);
+			count = LATCH - 1;
+		}
+
 		spin_unlock(&i8253_lock);
 
 		count = ((LATCH-1) - count) * TICK_SIZE;