Re: [Patch] tsc-disable_A5

[john stultz]

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 16:29, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I suppose you could it rewrite like
> 
> ...
> CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC=y (or whatever)
> ...
> 
> if [ some_condition ]; then
>   define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC n
> else
>   define_bool CONFIG_X86_TSC $CONFIG_X86_WANT_TSC
> fi
> 
> Not exactly elegant, but it should work ;)

Yep, my first release was done in a similar fashion, but Alan suggested
the patch take on its current form. There may be cases where we want to
know if we have a TSC even if we don't want to use them. 

Thread link:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/1188.html

Thanks for the suggestion,
-john