Re: tsc breaks atkbd suspend

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 11:52:31 EST


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > TSC is used even on machines when CONFIG_X86_TSC is not set (X86_TSC
> > means _require_ TSC), but it is not properly disabled when it is
> > unusable, because acpi code understood the config switch as "may use
> > TSC".
> >
> > This actually fixes suspend problems on my x60.
>
> ah! This makes tons of sense. I've applied your patch - but i guess it
> should go via the ACPI tree.

Right. The breakage was introduced there when IA64 switched to
GENERIC_TIME and the X86_TSC dependency was added.

Thanks,

tglx
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