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

Rob Landley
2009-01-04T01:47:34Z

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