linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trivial: fix grammo in tsc comment about Geode TSC reliability

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:16:30 -0500
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...labora.co.uk>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
Cc:	trivial@...nel.org, marcelo@...ck.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trivial: fix grammo in tsc comment about Geode TSC
 reliability

Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...labora.co.uk>

That code should probably exist for generic kernels (distro kernels
that aren't compiled specifically for GEODE_LX).  Currently it's
#ifdef'd..


On Sun, 17 Jan 2010
19:44:44 -0200 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> index 597683a..23066ec 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> @@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ static void __init check_system_tsc_reliable(void)
>  	unsigned long res_low, res_high;
>  
>  	rdmsr_safe(MSR_GEODE_BUSCONT_CONF0, &res_low, &res_high);
> -	/* Geode_LX - the OLPC CPU has a possibly a very reliable
> TSC */
> +	/* Geode_LX - the OLPC CPU has a very reliable TSC */
>  	if (res_low & RTSC_SUSP)
>  		tsc_clocksource_reliable = 1;
>  #endif
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