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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 17 2007 13:53, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> index 0000000..fd46b3d
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/kernel/timeconst.pl
> 
> Could this live in scripts/ too? (And use CodingStyle?)

Why should it live in scripts/ rather than where it is used?  scripts/ 
is used either for global scripts or scripts which are used manually. 
Other scripts are not centralized there.

CodingStyle is applicable to C code, not to scripts as far as I can tell.

	-hpa