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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <devel@brodo.de>, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann@prelude-ids.org>,
	<cpufreq@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>, <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fix 32bits integer overflow in loops_per_jiffy calculation
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:35:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020822193516.15445@192.168.4.1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020822185107.A1160@brodo.de>

>IMHO per-arch functions are really not needed. The only architectures which
>have CPUFreq drivers by now are ARM and i386. This will change, hopefully;
>IMHO it should be enough to include some basic limit checking in 
>cpufreq_scale().

In this specific case, we were talking about PPC since the problem
occured when I implemented cpufreq support to switch the speed
of the latest powerbooks between 667 and 800Mhz

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-22 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-22 13:02 [PATCH]: fix 32bits integer overflow in loops_per_jiffy calculation Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-22 12:12 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-08-22 14:31   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-22 15:23     ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-08-22 15:59       ` Yoann Vandoorselaere
2002-08-22 17:22         ` [PATCH]: fix 32bits integer overflow in loops_per_jiffycalculation george anzinger
2002-08-22 16:51       ` [PATCH]: fix 32bits integer overflow in loops_per_jiffy calculation Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-22 19:35         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2002-08-22 17:46           ` Dominik Brodowski
2002-08-22 18:02             ` Yoann Vandoorselaere
2002-08-22 20:00             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-22  9:50 Yoann Vandoorselaere
2002-08-22 10:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-08-22 13:00   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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