From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763990AbYBPCxU (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:53:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756994AbYBPCxM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:53:12 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43462 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756635AbYBPCxL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:53:11 -0500 Message-ID: <47B64FE9.3000304@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:52:25 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miltonm@bga.com, Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove the new perl dependency from build. References: <200802152010.05505.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200802152010.05505.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley wrote: > > Removed the special case "canned" logic from the perl script (it always requires > Math::bigint when it runs now). Moved the list of canned values into > kernel/Makefile. (It's already a selection menu in kconfig, so you can't > just feed arbitrary values into it anyway. If you add a new value to kconfig, > add it to kernel/Makefile as well and delete kernel/timeconst.h so the build > recreates it.) > The problem is that for at least one architecture, CONFIG_HZ is settable to arbitrary values, so you need a way to invoke the generic code if you don't have a pre-canned value available. I have to admit to having very little interest in this kind of minimality exercises, which seem to have pretty much academic value only -- in reality, people cross-compile the kernel to go onto this kind of minimal boxes. -hpa