[PATCH] Get correct CPU frequency from sysfs

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 12:31:37PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >     Get correct CPU frequency from sysfs
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> Where do you see a problem?

I got a report for clock_gettime going backwards. I think that
was on some enterprise distro, either rhel5 or sles10.

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> This code should only be used on ancient kernels without the clock_*
> syscalls. 

Ok.

> Those kernels also don't have the /sys facilities, I think.

Not sure that's true.

> Don't just send patches, describe the problem first.

Thanks for the encouraging words.

-Andi
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