Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 03 January 2009 14:50:43 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > With respect to your three patches the plan is to:
> > - add the updated timeconst patch to kbuild-next
>
> If you add this, you take the responsibility for the breakages that will
> occur.  The reason his patch is "simpler" is because he removes the
> arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and simply hopes that the system
> utilities that he uses uses an integer size which happens to be big enough.

Actually once I _noticed_ that ADJ32 could overflow (none of the other values 
can), it was fairly easy to prevent it from doing so.  I added some comments 
analyzing the pathological case (HZ 1, assuming nobody's interested in 
HZ>1000000).

> 	-hpa

Rob
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