linux-kernel - Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59

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Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:21:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> 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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