On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote:

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> On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > TSC is used even on machines when CONFIG_X86_TSC is not set (X86_TSC 
> > > > means _require_ TSC), but it is not properly disabled when it is 
> > > > unusable, because acpi code understood the config switch as "may use 
> > > > TSC".
> > > > 
> > > > This actually fixes suspend problems on my x60.
> > > 
> > > ah! This makes tons of sense. I've applied your patch
> 
> please do not.

It's not in the -mm branch.
 
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> > > - but i guess it  should go via the ACPI tree.
> 
> yes.
> 
> > Right. The breakage was introduced there when IA64 switched to
> > GENERIC_TIME and the X86_TSC dependency was added.
> 
> so do we need a patch for 2.6.23.stable and 2.6.24.stable?

Yes.

Thanks,
	tglx
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