Re: SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 11:02:03 EST




On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> well.... this value is *passed to userspace* via the AT_ attributes ....
> glibc probably nicely exports this info via sysconf(). I guess/hope your
> tools are now using that ?

Even then, it's a bug in my opinion. Yes, procps should be able to just
use sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK), but the fact is, using CLK_TCK and HZ is
traditional unix behaviour, and we should just support it.

Linus
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