From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:05:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308311404430.1581-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030829210335.GA3150@codepoet.org>
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> gcc then generates code calling __udivdi3 and __umoddi3. Since
> the kernel does not provide these, people keep reinventing them.
> Perhaps it is time to kill off do_div and all its little friends
> and simply copy __udivdi3 and __umoddi3 from libgcc.....
No. do_div() does _nothing_ like __udivdi3/__umoddi3.
Read the documentation.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-31 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-28 23:41 [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-29 18:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-29 21:03 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-08-31 22:24 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05 22:19 ` George Anzinger
[not found] <pEGJ.73p.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-29 3:40 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-08-29 16:12 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-30 4:59 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-08-29 23:58 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-05 22:26 ` George Anzinger
2003-08-30 16:26 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-06 19:04 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-07 17:57 ` George Anzinger
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