Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc6] failsafe mechanism to HPET clock calibration

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On Saturday 14 April 2007 01:28:20 Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Provide a failsafe mechanism to avoid kernel spinning for ever at read_hpet_tsc
> during early kernel bootup.
> 
> This failsafe mechanism was introduced in 21-rc,
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f7a2a79c3ebb44f8b1b7d9b4fd3a650eb69e544
> 
> But looks like the hpet split from time.c lost the commit.
> 
> This patch reintroduces the failsafe mechanism

Added thanks

-Andi
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