From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:47:20 -0600 Message-ID: <200901031947.21179.rob@landley.net> References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <20090103201059.GA4875@uranus.ravnborg.org> <495FCFA3.4030000@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <495FCFA3.4030000@zytor.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Matthieu CASTET , Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Embedded Linux mailing list , Andrew Morton 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