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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:30:46 +0100
From: "Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Prevent early access to TSC to avoid crash on TSCless systems
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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> +static int tsc_enabled;

So, now we have tsc_disable, tsc_enabled and tsc_unstable.
I can understand the latter, but this lacks orthogonality IMHO.

-- 
Guillaume