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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