Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 2010 19:49:07 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c compile bug |
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On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:34:35 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote: > > Does it even make sense to build hpet_example on s390? > I.e., does s390 have hpet? > If not, then a simple Kconfig "depends on X86" or "depends on !S390" > will fix this.
HPET is very PC specific.
but.. even on x86, it does not really make sense, and exposing this as an interface to userspace is a historical mistake, the use of which we really ought to discourage.
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