On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:51:09 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> + do_div(x, HZ / USER_HZ); > >> + #endif > >> #else > >> /* > >> * There are better ways that don't overflow early, > > > > Alas, I get 100% rejects due to conflicting changes from Peter's > > avoid-overflows-in-kernel-timec.patch. > > > > Peter, did that patch propagate this failure, or might it have happily > > fixed it? > > > > My patch doesn't touch any of these functions, nor touches any code > within 70 lines of this patch -- the last line touched is line 478 -- > and doesn't touch linux/acct.h at all, so how could it cause a conflict? oop, sorry, it was the mime-mess-mangles-everything problem and I failed to spot it. > But no, it doesn't fix this particular problem, even if using a similar > technique might very well be a better way to do this kind of conversion. OK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
