Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kill i386 references to xtime

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 08:17:37 EST


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:29:57 -0700, john stultz wrote:
>This patch kills all xtime references in i386 and replaces them with
>proper settimeofday()/gettimeofday() calls.
>
>I'm not sure the APM changes are 100% right, as that code is very
>muddled (take the i8253_lock before calling reinit_timer, which would
>take the i8253_lock again and hang if it weren't ifdef'ed out!).
>
>Anyway, testing, feedback or comments would be appreciated!

Tested full APM suspend/resume cycle on my Latitude,
with no observable ill effects.

Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
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