Re: [PATCH][RFC] sort out CLOCK_TICK_RATE usage [0/3]

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 11:48:11 EST


On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:

> With every 2.6 kernel I tried the system speaker on my Alpha produces a
> rather unpleasant high pitched tone instead of the normal system beep.
> This is because in p|cspkr.c the calculation of the counter values is
> incorrectly based on CLOCK_TICK_RATE.
> To solve this problem I came up with these tree patches:
>
> 1/3: introduce PIC_TICK_RATE constant. It seems this is not always
> the same value.
> 2/3: use PIC_TICK_RATE in *spkr.c and some other places where the
> PIC is directly programmed.
> 3/3: use CLOCK_TICK_RATE where 1193180 was used in timing calculations.
>
> Tested on Alpha, compile & boot-tested on i386 (unrelated LVM problems here)
>
> Arch maintainers please have a look whether I got the constants right or
> if your architecture has a PIC at all.

Isn't this supposed to be PIT_TICK_RATE?
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