From fab892232e275e4e9351a50d018c0a9513155814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Cox Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:17:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] vt: Add a note on the historical abuse of CLOCK_TICK_RATE This is one area where we can't just magic away the bizarre use of CLOCK_TICK_RATE as it leaks to user space APIs. It also means the visible CLOCK_TICK_RATE is frozen for architectures which is horrible. We need to fix this somehow Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c index a2dee0eb6dad..e6ce632a393e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c @@ -400,6 +400,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, case KIOCSOUND: if (!perm) goto eperm; + /* FIXME: This is an old broken API but we need to keep it + supported and somehow separate the historic advertised + tick rate from any real one */ if (arg) arg = CLOCK_TICK_RATE / arg; kd_mksound(arg, 0); @@ -417,6 +420,9 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file * file, */ ticks = HZ * ((arg >> 16) & 0xffff) / 1000; count = ticks ? (arg & 0xffff) : 0; + /* FIXME: This is an old broken API but we need to keep it + supported and somehow separate the historic advertised + tick rate from any real one */ if (count) count = CLOCK_TICK_RATE / count; kd_mksound(count, ticks); -- 2.30.2