Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Lee Revell
2005-07-09T18:16:38Z

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
> > > WHAT?
> > >
> > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 --- so why is the default 250.
> >
> > Because 1000 is too high.
> >
>
> What happened to 300 as default, as that is divisible by both 50 and 60
> (or something like that) ?

I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the
middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL complain about it.

Lee