Commit 189e2dd1 authored Oct 30, 2005 by Clemens Ladisch Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 30, 2005

[PATCH] hpet: allow non-power-of-two frequencies



It was only the RTC hardware that restricted interrupt frequencies to a power
of two.  There is no reason to take over this restriction into the HPET
driver, so remove the offending check.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 3f992e1b

drivers/char/hpet.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, int cmd, unsigned long arg, int kernel)
		break;
		}

		if (!arg \|\| (arg & (arg - 1))) {
		if (!arg) {
		err = -EINVAL;
		break;
		}

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