From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932092AbZLIXvo (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:51:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758670AbZLIXvj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:51:39 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40397 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758637AbZLIXvi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:51:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4B203691.7020203@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:45:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-3.9.b4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: Michal Marek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh References: <200912080317.08254.rob@landley.net> <200912080319.30679.rob@landley.net> <4B1FC621.8060500@suse.cz> <200912091740.43147.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200912091740.43147.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/09/2009 03:40 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > This is why reducing the perl version to just the precomputed constants > wouldn't work either. (They're there so that you only need to install a > random cpan library when surprised by a build break on non-x86 machines.) > It's not "a random CPAN library" - it's a core module. -hpa