Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> That's not quite right.  Leaving the code unchanged caused breakage
> already.  The PIT is damn stupid and can be sensitive to how quickly it's
> programmed.  So code that enable/disable didn't change, but frequency
> with which it is called did and broke some random boxes.

Sure. We cannot avoid *all* problems. Bugs happen. 

But at least we could try to make sure that there aren't totally 
unnecessary changes in that switch-over patch. Which there definitely 
were, as far as I can tell.

		Linus
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