From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760176AbZACUvU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:51:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752386AbZACUvI (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:51:08 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43207 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751509AbZACUvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:51:07 -0500 Message-ID: <495FCFA3.4030000@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:50:43 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Rob Landley , Matthieu CASTET , Arkadiusz Miskiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Embedded Linux mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <200901020513.19593.rob@landley.net> <495E3AF8.6000006@parrot.com> <200901031346.01325.rob@landley.net> <20090103201059.GA4875@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20090103201059.GA4875@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.