On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:15 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 3:40 pm, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > In this case "different" goes into userspace .. So different could mean
> > userspace regression, which is something that we don't want. I have no
> > idea if any apps use /proc/interrupts , but it's possible since it's
> > been around for a long time.
> >
> > The reason that I'm bringing it up at all is because people have ask me
> > "Why isn't my timer ticking??"
>
> Because there are two clock sources in the machine and it's using the other
> one, so the interrupt isn't firing?
>
> Are you saying that the /proc statistics aren't accurate, or that you
> previously misunderstood what it was actually measuring and you'd now like it
> to lie?
I understand exactly what is happening . The statistics are unclear, and
tend to confuse people .
Daniel
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