Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 18:59:26 EST




On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> That's not quite right. Leaving the code unchanged caused breakage
> already. The PIT is damn stupid and can be sensitive to how quickly it's
> programmed. So code that enable/disable didn't change, but frequency
> with which it is called did and broke some random boxes.

Sure. We cannot avoid *all* problems. Bugs happen.

But at least we could try to make sure that there aren't totally
unnecessary changes in that switch-over patch. Which there definitely
were, as far as I can tell.

Linus
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