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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
