linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:49:54 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SOUND: kill gameport bits

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:05:58 +0200,
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Well, it worked on my test machine a year ago or so.  Maybe I had a
> > good luck.
> 
> FYI, now I tested again an analog joystick on SB Live put on a Dell
> IvyBridge desktop with 3.17-rc1 x86-64 kernel, and it worked fine as
> is.
> 
> So it's not that broken.

That's probably because in your system TSCs are stable when switching CPU
frequency. Earlier systems had bunch of issues there IIRC.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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