On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:28:20PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:39:01PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > > Keith's the expert (who wrote the smart scheduler): I'd take a wild ass > > guess that 10ms is good enough. > > > > Maybe people can keep him on the cc list this time... > > Not to poop on people's parade, but the last time I looked /dev/rtc was > a single instance device, right ? If this reasoning is true, then mplayer > and other apps that want to open it can't. > > What's the story with this ? > Its always been the case. Its hardware can only support one timer (or at least one timer period), and as such multiple users would interefere with each other. Regards Neil > bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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