linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make the kernel NTP code hand 64-bit *unsigned* values to do

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Message-Id: <20080223000455.a0f543e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:04:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	schwab@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make the kernel NTP code hand 64-bit *unsigned* values
 to do_div() [try #3]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:50:35 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> 
> The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div().  Make it
> instead hand 64-bit unsigned values.  This gets rid of a couple of warnings.

On certain architectures.  It would have bene nice to mention what those
architectures are, and to quote the warnings.  Next time, please ;)

> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> ---
> 
>  kernel/time/ntp.c |   12 +++++++-----

Thomas, do you consider ntp to fall under git-hrt?
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