Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263196AbTIATJ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263212AbTIATJ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:09:59 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:45574 "EHLO www.home.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263196AbTIATJ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:09:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:02:10 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Tim Schmielau Cc: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] 64 bit jiffies for 2.4.23-pre2 Message-ID: <20030901190210.GA24145@alpha.home.local> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1407 Lines: 33 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:28:31PM +0200, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > I think it's the most appropriate solution for 2.4. But you need to decide > > > whether you take this, whether someone should backport the (intrusive and > > > architecture-dependent) 2.6 fix, or whether you drop it completly and let > > > people just upgrade to 2.6. > > > > Sincerely, I prefer people use 2.6. > > OK, for people wanting this in their private trees, I'll try to keep an > up-to-date version at > > http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.4/ Ok, thanks Tim, I'll keep including it in my kernel since it allows my systems to live such a long life :-) But I don't think they will ever beat Alan's box which lasted 1100 days on 1.2.13 ! And that would not be reasonable because even for security reasons, you sometimes have to upgrade. BTW, that reminds me of Netware's patches that were basically hot fixes that you could apply without shutting the system down. That was really wonderful a feature that I would love to see on Linux. This is already doable with modules, but not with the system core. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/