linux-kernel - Re: Documentation/timers/hpet

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Message-ID: <20100530194907.67399986@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 30 May 2010 19:49:07 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c compile bug

On Sun, 30 May 2010 19:34:35 -0700
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> Does it even make sense to build hpet_example on s390?
> I.e., does s390 have hpet?
> If not, then a simple Kconfig "depends on X86" or "depends on !S390"
> will fix this.

HPET is very PC specific.

but.. even on x86, it does not really make sense, and exposing this as
an interface to userspace is a historical mistake, the use of which we
really ought to discourage.
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