Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:39 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:16:31 -0400,
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> 
> > I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the
> > middle of a stable kernel series.  People WILL complain about it.
> 
> 
> Lots of people have switched from 2.4 to 2.6 (100 Hz to 1000 Hz) with no impact in
> stability, AFAIK. (I only remember some weird warning about HZ with debian woody's
> ps).
> 

Yes, that's called "progress" so no one complained.  Going back is
called a "regression".  People don't like those as much.

Lee

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