From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263295AbVGOMl2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:41:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263289AbVGOMlX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:41:23 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:30394 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263277AbVGOMkH (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:40:07 -0400 Message-ID: <42D7B017.4060300@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:46:15 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano CC: Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Vojtech Pavlik , Arjan van de Ven , dean gaudet , Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , "Brown, Len" , dtor_core@ameritech.net, david.lang@digitalinsight.com, kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, diegocg@gmail.com, azarah@nosferatu.za.org, christoph@lameter.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt References: <1121286258.4435.98.camel@mindpipe> <20050713134857.354e697c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050713211650.GA12127@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20050714005106.GA16085@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1121304825.4435.126.camel@mindpipe> <1121326938.3967.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050714121340.GA1072@ucw.cz> <1121383050.4535.73.camel@mindpipe> <1121384499.4535.82.camel@mindpipe> <1121394653.19939.775.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <1121394653.19939.775.camel@cmn37.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > >Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where >"few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously >"many" > "few" :-) > Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly isn't true in all cases. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979