svn commit: r219676 - head/sys/x86/x86

[David Malone]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 04:34:10PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Please revert.  I use this for setting timecounters from userland.  The
> sysctl is not a hack, but the primary user interface for managing the
> TSC frequency.  The kern.timecounter.tc.TSC.frequency sysctl is
> secondary, and is readonly anyway, so it cannot be used to manage the
> TSC frequency or even the timecounter frequency.

Some people have asked me if I can make kern.timecounter.tc.*.frequency
writeable. I have it on my list of jobs to look at, but haven't had
a chance yet. Are there any obvious problems with this?

	David.