Re: SATA_SIL works with 2.6.7-bk8 seagate drive, but oops

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 10:14:19 EST



> You never did come up with an alternative to HZ-guessing
> that would work on those old 1200-HZ Alpha boxes, the ARM
> boxes that ran at 64 HZ and so on. I suppose you can blame
> the arch maintainers, but user-space has to deal with it.
> So HZ-guessing is a workaround for a kernel bug, especially
> because you claim that HZ (USER_HZ now) is part of the ABI.

well.... this value is *passed to userspace* via the AT_ attributes ....
glibc probably nicely exports this info via sysconf(). I guess/hope your
tools are now using that ?

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