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

H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-03T20:51:20Z

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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