From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:53:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201195339.GA997@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512011150110.3099@g5.osdl.org>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:50:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> >
> > Currently the HPET timer option isn't visible in menuconfig.
>
> Do you want it to?
>
> Why would you ever compile it out?
I don't see any reason for it neither. It would probably only
cause problems because such an option would inevitably bitrot
regularly.
Also the HPET code in x86-64 isn't even ifdefed right now,
so you can't do that.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-01 19:44 [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 19:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-12-01 20:30 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 20:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 21:06 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-01 21:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 13:53 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-08 14:58 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-08 15:23 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-09 19:56 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-01 23:13 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 20:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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