Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
> HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.

Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be 
bothered to set the default to suit your usage?

> It's straight from the MIDI spec.  Your argument is pretty close to "the
> MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".

No.

YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".

MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. 

		Linus
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