Re: asm-{alpha,h8300,um,v850,xtensa}/param.h: unbreak HZ for userspace

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:12:42AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:05:31PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> > > > could we please get an ack or nack on that patch.
> > > > checked linux-next and it doesn't appear there.
> > > > without it currently perl 5.10 doesn't build on alpha:
> > > > perl.c: In function 'perl_construct':
> > > > perl.c:388: error: 'CONFIG_HZ' undeclared (first use in this
> > > > function) ->
> > > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl;ver=5.10.0-10;arch=alpha;
> > > >stam p=1210252894
> > >
> > > hmm it seems more userspace expects CONFIG_HZ, so it's not only a perl
> > > build breakage..
> >
> > anything using CONFIG_HZ is absolutely broken.  go fix the package.
> >
> > anything using HZ should be converted to sysconf(), but i'm not about to
> > go on that crusade to fix things up
>
> news at 11
>
> okay great that the patch went into mm.

i'm guessing you're thinking packages are using CONFIG_HZ when in reality they 
arent.  the asm-alpha/param.h in 2.6.25 does:
#define HZ CONFIG_HZ
so anything using HZ would end up with an error message about CONFIG_HZ being 
undefined
-mike

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