Re: [PATCH 04/27] asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files

Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-01T13:20:49Z

On Friday 01 May 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> Currently if you create a new architecture you have to figure out what
> your equivalent tick rate is or you get an error for not defining it.
> Ditto if you try to build code using it on platforms that it is
> meaningless (eg S/390) you get an error.
>
> You'd lose that rather useful property.

In that case, I still think it would be good to have it in asm-generic.
Half the architectures define it in this way currently, and new architectures
would still have to think about it before falling back on the default.