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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:40:49 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
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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.

-Andi
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