Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] VIA timer fix was removed? | From | Nils Philippsen <> | Date | 12 Nov 2001 19:49:14 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:05, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:48:24PM +0100, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > > The following patch (introduced by Vojtech Pavlik some time ago) was > > > removed somewhere between 2.4.14 and 2.4.15-pre3. > > > Without it, the timer counter is reset to a wrong value and > > > gettimeofday() starts to return strange values > > > > > > Nothing aboutit is mentioned in the changelog, so I suppose it wasn't > > > supposed to be removed? > > > > Maybe, it happens because somebody forgot to comment why this code is > > necessary here ? > > Just a guess... > > Then perhaps this would be a good idea?
I have seen IBM machines (Netfinity 6000R) where this code got triggered even though they didn't have VIA chipsets/timers. Seems to have caused some problems there and I removed the code (in the custom kernel running on those machines).
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