linux-kernel - Re: Documentation/timers/hpet

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Date:	Sun, 30 May 2010 19:58:38 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c compile bug

On 05/30/10 19:49, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.

Do you mean exposing anything that is in /usr/include/linux/hpet.h via ioctls?
especially struct hpet_info ?

-- 
~Randy
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