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authorJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-03-29 17:18:49 -0500
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2006-03-29 17:18:49 -0500
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@@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ Who: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> and Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@s
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+What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer
+When: March 2007
+Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This
+ was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were
+ silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals.
+ Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed
+ and the timevals are sanitized.
+
+Who: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: I2C interface of the it87 driver
When: January 2007
Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C