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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:38:27 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: module mess in -CURRENT
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> and then have the timer clear "xtime_count" every time it updates it.  

Problem is that you cannot easily synchronize such a monotonously increasing
timer in a network. But make needs synchronized times.

-Andi
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