Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 08:22:34 EST


On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > The whole ACPI code relies pretty much on PM_TIMER and as I said
>
> The Linux ACPI code does not rely on PM_TIMER in any special ways AFAIK
> (except that it occasionally uses standard linux timer functions)
> It merely discovers it for use by the other pmtimer users.

# grep -rc acpi_gbl_FADT.xpm_timer_block.address drivers/acpi/ | grep -v ":0"
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:12

I need to correct myself. It's only the processor_idle code :)

Thanks,

tglx
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