Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:40:49 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: module mess in -CURRENT |
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> Owens' kbuild-2.5 handled it a different way and didn't need exact > timings. That is especially important since nanosecond time accuracy is
You may not believe it, but there are projects other than the kernel that do use make too.
> impossible if you are handling a collection of machines doing the > work. NTP is accurate, but not that accurate.
The patch does not actually implement nanosecond resolution, but jiffies resolution (1ms on 2.5), which is easily reachable with NTP.
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