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Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:53:20 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Its visibile for people doing PAL media processing and TV sync work.
> 
> Longer term we have high precision timers and tickless so for now we can
> jut do the HZ == 300 math in steps to avoid the overflow. Slower but in
> time it won't matter.
> 

Just use the patch... I don't think a dependency on bc will be a problem 
for anyone (but it should, indeed, be documented -- together with 
everything else we haven't documented yet.)

	-hpa
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