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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:50:43 -0800
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Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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