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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Avoid overflows in kernel/time.c
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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