From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 06:21:00 +0100
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On Saturday 04 March 2006 12:40, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Making `jiffies_64' a #define is less risky, but that doesn't work for
> 32-bit.

I meant the define on 64bit only. You're right on 32bit it would be somewhat messy.
But then we have to solve the problem on 32bit anyways, so it wasn't that hot
an idea.

-Andi
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