Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:50:43 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. |
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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.
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