Hi Dmitry, On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> At Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:05:58 +0200, >> Takashi Iwai wrote: >> > Well, it worked on my test machine a year ago or so. Maybe I had a >> > good luck. >> >> FYI, now I tested again an analog joystick on SB Live put on a Dell >> IvyBridge desktop with 3.17-rc1 x86-64 kernel, and it worked fine as >> is. >> >> So it's not that broken. > > That's probably because in your system TSCs are stable when switching CPU > frequency. Earlier systems had bunch of issues there IIRC.
>From the success stories above, it seems gameport doesn't work on only a limited number of systems. Perhaps the subsystem can fail with a big fat warning at runtime if such a system is detected? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/