linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v2 char-misc 1/1] x86/hyperv: Fix PIT shutdown quirk

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Date:   Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:41:17 +0000
From:   Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "daniel.lezcano@...aro.org" <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
        vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "marcelo.cerri@...onical.com" <marcelo.cerri@...onical.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 char-misc 1/1] x86/hyperv: Fix PIT shutdown quirk

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:36 AM
> 
> You can avoid the ideffery completely. Something like the uncompiled patch
> (lacks comments) below keeps everything in i8253 and should just work.
> 

Thanks.  I'll spin a new version with that approach.  Having to clutter the i8253
code with a Hyper-V quirk is unfortunate, but it's a lot fewer lines of code overall.

Michael