Re: [PATCH] x86: use explicit timing delay for pit accesses in kerneland pcspkr driver

From: Rene Herman
Date: Wed Feb 20 2008 - 12:08:35 EST


On 20-02-08 18:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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.

Linus vetoed the DMI switch.

Rene.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/