From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764544AbYBTRHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:07:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753075AbYBTRHB (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:07:01 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49746 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751863AbYBTRG7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:06:59 -0500 Message-ID: <47BC5DF4.9020300@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:05:56 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: "David P. Reed" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use explicit timing delay for pit accesses in kernel and pcspkr driver References: <6gr00g$g7qpu0@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net> <47B9ECE0.70000@keyaccess.nl> <47B9EDF1.5050404@zytor.com> <47B9F2EC.4070308@keyaccess.nl> <47B9FC3A.2010508@zytor.com> <47B9FFD5.6040801@keyaccess.nl> <47BA002B.7070806@zytor.com> <47BA0188.6000808@keyaccess.nl> <47BA077B.50401@keyaccess.nl> <47BA0A3D.1060708@zytor.com> <47BC17BE.9010800@keyaccess.nl> In-Reply-To: <47BC17BE.9010800@keyaccess.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rene Herman wrote: > > _Something_ like this would seem to be the only remaining option. It > seems fairly unuseful to #ifdef around that switch statement for kernels > without support for the earlier families, but if you insist... > "Only remaining option" other than the one we've had all along. Even on the one idiotic set of systems which break, it only breaks post-ACPI intialization, IIRC. -hpa