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    SubjectRe: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.
    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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