linux-kernel - Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

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Message-ID: <495FCFA3.4030000@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:50:43 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@...rot.com>,
	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 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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